My life goal is full global supremacy for Cantonese and I stand by it. However, that doesn’t mean that other languages can’t frolic happily alongside this most fun and happening of all tongues. Also, it →
Well, it’s not really a classifier as such, because classifiers are used to classify specific things, as we’ve seen before in for example: 我有兩隻狗，(o yau leung jek gau) – I have two dogs. 0的 (di) →
Hi people! I’m going to take Adventure Trip off my new website as there wasn’t a big market for going into Guangdong province (weird) but the trips still go on, of course. There are so many places I still haven’t explored, all with various types of Cantonese. Let’s go on a language seminar! Even if it’s only overnight to Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
There are as many types of Chinese food as there are people in China; approximately 1.3 billion different dishes at last count. That's more dishes than you and I go through in an average month!
There's the starchy and sturdy Beijing food, the fiery (-ish) vinegary Hunan food and the bland Cantonese food with its insistence on straight from the tank freshness.
None of these can hold a candle, nay, a flickering match, to the glorious riot of colours and tastes that is Sichuan food done right.
Spicy, sweet, sour, pungent, salty and lip-numbingly peppery; Sichuan cooking often combine all these elements in one dish.
Bursting with green, red, purples and yellow, the dishes excite the eyes before their wafting aroma reaches the nostrils.
And as you lift the chopsticks to your mouth, leaving the tasty morsel suspended for a moment while drawing in its tantalising fumes like an old and expensive wine, you think: Verily: This is the meaning of life.
It's all about the peppercorns. No, the chillies. No, wait…
Now I want to share some of their secrets with you.
Come to CHILLies Sichuan lunches and dinners, or take a cooking course so you can always have delicious Sichuan food right on hand.
You can also experiment on your own by learning from my cookbook CHILLies! Sichuan Food Made Easy.
大嶼山 – Dai Yu Saan (Lantau Island)
去大嶼山食川菜 – Heui Dai Yu Saan sek chuen choy (Go to Lantau Island to eat Sichuan food)
好鬼好食 – Hou gwai hou sek (Well devilishly good to eat/damned delicious)
Splendid China is exactly that – splendid. Only 15 to 20 minutes’ drive from Lo Wu is a world of semi naked guys dancing and dancing, Chinese opera shrieking through your bones and every famous thing in China so small you can pick it up, but perfectly formed.
