Chinese Truffle

Making Friends With Change (learnchinese.cz.cc) - March 16, 2010
I nose about like a truffle hound looking for change. And if I can't find any, I intentionally make change happen. Sometimes, when we don't expect it, when change just up and happens, I do my best to…

beverly: SHANGHAI TANG CAFE @ XINTIANDI (beverly.livejournal.com) - March 10, 2010
My favourite dish was the Sauteed duck meat with Chinese truffle and mushrooms which was a DIY dish. We had fun stuffing our little cones and lettuce cups with the ingredients and it was tasty but not…

Chubby's New York Food Diary + some travel eats: David Burke & The ... (chubbychinesegirl.com) - March 09, 2010
SECOND COURSE – Crispy Trout with Black Pepper Truffle and Almond Cavatelli. The fish was cooked just right, crispy skin, tender flesh. The Cavatelli al dente, reminiscent of gnocchi. Crunchy almonds…

Veal Cheeks (vealcheeks.blogspot.com) - March 07, 2010
Chef Leung marries the techniques the molecular cuisine (cuisine agape) with a mixture of Asian and western flavors, but with an emphasis on luxe ingredients: the restaurant describes themselves as cr…

Le trafic de truffes (french.about.com) - March 04, 2010
To take advantage of the higher prices, dishonnest sellers mix real truffles with fake ones: either Chinese truffles (which look like Périgord truffles and take on their particular odor but which have…

Chinese Truffles (trufflehunteritaly.wordpress.com) - March 03, 2010
Gareth Renowden, author of the excellent The Truffle Book, has posted a link on his Limestone Hills blog to an article he wrote on Chinese truffles. He also links to an article about his truffle hunti…

Truffle dogs and Chinese truffles (but not Chinese truffle dogs) (blog.limestonehills.co.nz) - March 03, 2010
The first is a paper [PDF] on Chinese truffles commissioned by Gastronomica (the prestigious US food and culture journal) in 2008, which draws heavily on my experiences in China in 2007. It discusses…

Hong Kong most expensive things: How to blow US$100 million ... (cnngo.com) - March 01, 2010
You may not have heard of lingzhi, yunzhi or matsutake, but like truffles, these are all fungi that are highly prized in Hong Kong. The former two are traditional Chinese medicinal herbs used for thou…