Topic: East Asia

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Try to combine your seafood feast with breathtaking views of Sydney harbor or a beach ? some restaurants in Sydney have it all!For foodies, Bangkok is ?street food? ...

What is Pressed Duck?

Depending on the context, “pressed duck” can refer to two different dishes. Both dishes are unique ways to use duck, and both versions of pressed duck are not to everyone's taste.In the case of the French dish, known in French as canard ...

What is Fusion Cuisine?

Fusion cuisine blends the culinary traditions of two or more nations to create innovative and sometimes quite interesting dishes. Some common examples of fusion cuisine include Pacific Rim cuisine and Tex-Mex food. Several French chefs began to offer foods which combined traditional ...

Chef Joel Robuchon wins top marks in Asia dining list

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life! ) - Gourmands have chosen restaurants run by French chef Joel Robuchon as the best in Asia in the latest edition of a regional dining guide which showed the love of good food could triumph over the economic downturn.Parisian ...
French food group Danone said on Friday that it would sell its 51 percent stake in its ventures with China's Wahaha group to settle their long-running disputes in an amicable manner. Danone's stake sale to Wahaha, one of China's biggest beverage makers, ...

Final Glance: Staffing companies

In November, France's Michelin guide released its first-ever Tokyo edition, creating a stir when it awarded Tokyo restaurants more stars (191! But the appreciation of good food--and, naturally, wine--has filtered down to the middle classes in Japan, now flush with disposable income ...

Olympic Buzz in Beijing

What's new in China's capital for 2008. Whampoa Club Shanghai has a new branch in Beijing, where noted chef Jereme Leung is reinterpreting classic northern-provincial recipes. Order the Imperial fried lamb with sweet bean paste, a Qing Dynasty dish. Dine on Chinese ...
It had been more than a year since the first San Francisco Michelin Guide created some excitement?and ultimate disappointment, as only one restaurant earned three stars. What made the guide's release such a surprise, in addition to its perceived partiality toward French ...