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Hot and Spicy: How Malatang Conquered China
As a Gansu variety of “malatang” goes viral online, we delve into the history and appeal of one of China’s most ubiquitous dishes
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Stripped Down: The Story Behind China’s Favorite Snack
How simple, greasy, cheap “latiao” (literally ”spicy strips“) became the people’s snack
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You Slaw It Everywhere: How Chinese Cabbage Connects Generations
Discover how spicy cabbage connects people across space and time in old and new ways
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Shandong Cuisine's Best Dishes
Underrated Shandong cuisine, or Lu cuisine, has history, originality, and methodology to go with its taste
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Hot and Saucy
From ‘poor man’s salt’ to kitchen perennial, China’s spicy sauce has always blazed its own trail
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Endless Summer
From the spicy food to its sizzling streets and violent history, David Dawson finds the heat has always been on in Chongqing
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We tasted McDonald’s ‘SzeChuan Sauce’ so you never have to
“The Rick and Morty special SzeChuan Sauce has arrived in China!” We tried it out
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Funky Food
“Smells smelly, tastes tasty,” so the saying goes. Sun Jiahui finds out exactly what that means
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