Foreign travelers visiting China will inevitably encounter amusing translations on English restaurant menus during their journeys. So why is it so darn tricky to translate Chinese dish names into Engl...

Demand for Asian cuisine in the UK seems to know no bounds. Retailers including Oseyo and Longdan are embarking on ambitious expansion plans

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry

Northeast Atlantic mackerel populations depleted, and Good Fish Guide says shoppers should look for other options

In this episode we look at the life and work of Lynn Pan, one of the most imaginative of writers in English about modern China and particularly Shanghai, who died last year, and was commemorated at a ...

Acclaimed author Paul French is set to visit Bookazine Social in Tai Kwun (the former Central Police Station) on March 13th from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm to discuss his latest works.  In the lead-up to th...

It's Hong Kong Lit Fest time - March 1-8 is a feast for the reader in Hong Kong... and I'll be there along with Jake Adelstein (Tokyo Vice), Bernadine Evaristo (Mr Loverman) & many, many others....

Famed food writer and Sichuan chef Fuchsia Dunlop teaches the WSJ's Deborah Kan how to make mapo tofu, a classic Chinese dish. Ms. Dunlop also reveals her experience as the first Westerner to graduate...

I write about food. And other things. Latest book is THE SECRET OF COOKING. Founder of TastEd ( a food education charity): the joy of vegetables & fruits.