By Zhouyang · Shanghai

Suan Cai Yu: The Fish That Taught China to Love Sour

The bowl is the size of a washbasin and the steam rising off it smells like a vinegar factory caught fire. You’re in Chengdu. It’s 9pm on …

Hong Shao Niu Rou Mian: The Braised Beef Noodle Soup That Knows What Time Tastes Like

I was 23, fresh out of Fudan and three months into my first job at Microsoft’s Shanghai office. December. The kind of damp Shanghai cold that …

Scallion Oil Noodles — Shanghai's Midnight Alchemy

It’s 2am. You’ve just gotten off a late conference call with the Redmond office — the kind where you spent forty minutes explaining the …