Sichuan picked peppers 泡椒

Once I got over my fear of barging into kitchens, I started making friends.

Cooking school–Sichuan edition

Every day, I leave class smelling like fish guts and chili oil. It’s heaven.

Tom’s big adventure

Would you like to hear about my daily trek to the coffee shop across the street? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

What can we learn from China’s 1910 plague?

Quick action pays a dividend of institutions and esteem

Online teaching is not prop comedy

There was no contingency plan. There should always be a contingency plan…

Beijing coronavirus updates

new policies in the capital

Lookin’ at you, Joe Strummer

positively ab-so-lut-e-ly…

Beijing’s on lockdown, so what’s for dinner?

Traffic in Beijing has stopped, and everyone is afraid to leave the house.

So what are people eating?

Beijing in a time of coronavirus

In 2003, I had just started working at the National University of Singapore, and not long after that, something else came to Singapore–SARS.

Food studies in Beijing

We all knew it would come to this.