Cantonese egg tarts, with their silky smooth, eggy custard filling and flaky pastry crust, are hard to resist when walking past a Hong Kong-style …
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Eat Drink Asia
Deep dive into the forgotten history behind some of Asia’s most popular dishes that have gone global with feature and podcast series Eat Drink Asia. Join reporters Alkira Reinfrank and Bernice Chan as they speak with chefs, restaurateurs and food experts to uncover the human stories behind these much-loved foods and drinks.
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With nimble fingers, dim sum chef Leung Kwok-wa places a freshly rolled dumpling wrapper in his palm, scoops a spoonful of pork filling into the …
A scene in last year’s Academy Award-winning film Parasite, in which the housekeeper whips up instant noodles with finely marbled Korean Hanwoo beef, …
The story of butter chicken is one of three hard-working refugees, a hugely popular Delhi restaurant, and an accidental combination of ingredients …
South Korea is widely known for having one of the best and most crispy versions of fried chicken, a dish enjoyed the world over that was first …
Introduced to Vietnam by the colonial French, the baguette was later adapted for local tastes. Banh mi is still sold in Vietnam as a cheap snack, but …
Fried, baked, boiled or braised, pork-based Spam was first a hit in the US during the Great Depression and then in Asia after World War II. Now some …
A Hong Kong bakery started selling mooncakes in July that send political messages via the embossing on them. Referring to anti-government protests …
We think of Sichuan food as numbing and super hot, but the cuisine is much more subtle than that, say chefs and fans. Dishes such as mapo tofu and …
Sushi reached China, then Japan from the Mekong River, and was later exported to the US and the rest of the world. Originally a dish of fermented …
Huy Fong’s sriracha is an American-made hot sauce with Thai roots, invented by a Chinese-Vietnamese refugee who started out delivering his product …
Have you ever wondered why dim sum is served in trolleys? Or what the most authentic experience of dim sum is, and how much work it takes to make …
Created in Taichung, Taiwan in the 1980s, bubble tea is a mix of milk tea, tapioca pearls and syrup. It spread through Asia, gaining popularity and …
