This Week’s Film: Fleeing By Night
Cuisine: Chinese
Beijing cuisine is synonymous with Mandarin cuisine, and the term ‘mandarin’ refers not to a province, but to the capital itself, formerly known as Peking, where the mandarin officials of the Chinese Empire once resided.
The metropolis of Beijing, a name that means ‘Northern Capital’, is located in the northeast region, near the Great Wall of China, and is the site of the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Ming Tombs. The surrounding area is rich with an array of agricultural products, and the Mandarin cuisine prepared with them may be quite elaborate.
The most popular dishes include Mu-Shu Pork, Peking Duck, and Mongolian-influenced items such as pot stickers, garlic-scallion beef, and cook-it-yourself hot pots (pictured).
My Beijing recipe will be posted at the end of the week along with my Fleeing by Night film review.
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This Week’s Film: Fleeing By Night
Cuisine: Chinese
Synopsis: This 1930s-era drama stars Lei Huang as an American-born Chinese cellist destined for an arranged marriage to a Beijing bride, but chooses his own path instead to pursue a homosexual relationship with an opera singer.
Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film review will be posted at the end of the week, along with my Chinese recipe.
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This Week’s Film: Fleeing By Night
Cuisine: Chinese
Each week, I feature an Asian film and create a recipe from the cuisine of that country. This week, the film is Fleeing by Night, paired with a Chinese recipe to go with it.
Join me throughout the week for a closer look at the food and the film. My recipe and film review will be posted at the end of the week.
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon
Cuisine: Philippine
Since the classic Adobo preparation method lends itself so naturally to a slow-cooker, this recipe uses a basic Adobo marinade, and is simmered in the crockpot for six hours. And while this recipe may not be strictly ‘authentic’, it certainly is easy and delicious!
Here is a link to the Recipe and Photo on ThingsAsian.
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon
Cuisine: Philippine
After nearly three months of unseasonably cool weather, with many complaints of gardens flagging for lack of sunshine, it looks like summer has finally arrived here in God’s Little Acre. The mercury has reached triple digits for the third day in a row, with a promise of a cooling trend over the weekend. I’m predicting a long, languorous Indian Summer in the weeks to come…my favorite time of year.
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon Cuisine: Philippine Filipino food is one of my favorite international cuisines, and over the years I’ve made many of its most popular dishes. Among them are empanadas, escabeche, pancit (pictured), lumpia, kinilaw, and morcon. One of my all-time favorites is my recipe for Easy Crockpot Adobo. It has all the [...]
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon Cuisine: Philippine Philippine cuisine is influenced by many cultures, most notably Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Chinese, and Muslim. So, traditional dishes include such ethnically diverse ingredients as Southeast Asian patis (fish sauce), Portuguese chorizo and linguica sausages, spicy chili peppers, and water buffalo cheese. Seafood is abundant, as are tropical [...]
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon Cuisine: Philippine Synopsis: With the help of his son and grandson, an elderly, terminally-ill man goes on a quest to find the long-lost love of his life. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film review will be [...]
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This Week’s Film: Blue Moon Cuisine: Philippine Each week, I feature an Asian film and create a recipe from the cuisine of that country. This week, it’s Once in a Blue Moon, a Philippine film and a recipe for a tasty Filipino dish to go with it Join me throughout the week for a closer [...]
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This Week’s Film: Lemon Tree Cuisine: Middle Eastern A lemon grove that lies on the border between Israel and the West Bank is the focus of this film, in which Salma Zidane, a Palestinian widow, must defend her family legacy against the destructive edict of Israeli security forces who believe that the thick foliage of [...]
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