Welcome to #CheckIn for Sunday, January 7, 2024

Welcome to #CheckIn for Sunday, January 7, 2024. More Taiwan and China on the menu today. Not so much the nation states, more the audio menu and talk about cuisines. Another nommsy detail is the is the dumpling emoji, which became available to smartphones and such only a couple years ago. Talk about uniting people with chef's specialties! 🥟 🥢 🥣

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So I came across the Sinica Podcast: Fuchsia Dunlop, a chef with a unique education and career talks about the eight regional cuisines in China. Audio can be had here. Did you know all of these? I didn't.

I am fortunate to live in a city with a very good availability of most of these, and also the modern-ish blends that have developed on Taiwan - which in turn has its own goodness to offer. In comparison I can only dabble in vaguely Chinese cooking, despite having more than two decades of growing familiarity. To keep on learning is what I'll keep up in 2024.

Another thing, restaurants with Chinese cuisines here have long stopped to theme along Golden Dragons or similar. And most have stopped calling themselves "Chinese" but do differentiate along regional lines for many years now. What is that like where you are? For comparison, my Taiwanese MIL cooks fantastic things as well as down to earth dishes, such as these:

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