Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Hunanese Cuisine (湘菜) + Beer = Crazy Delicious

China is chockablock with restaurants serving delicious, spicy and greasy Hunanese cuisine. The food is very good but spicy. Furthermore, since Chairman Mao was from Hunan, often eateries have a Red Guard, Cultural Revolution or Maoist motif. Below are shots from a Hunan restaurant in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province:







Tuesday, May 30, 2006

How would you like that stir fried?

Waitress in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China discussing the methods for stir frying the ordered vegetables. At a Hunanese cuisine restaurant.

Tea kung fu

A tea master pours tea out of a long-spouted kettle. It's a sort of herb and flower-ladden tea mix. This was taken in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China. In an Hunanese restaurant.