Taiwanese founder of Pengyuan restaurants and the inventor of General Tso’s chicken (左宗棠雞), passed away in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov. 30. He was 98. Peng started out as an apprentice of Cao Jingchen, a famous early 20th-century Chinese chef. After his apprenticeship, he began developing his own takes on Hunan cuisine. Peng first cooked General […]
WeChat, China’s major instant messaging app, came up with a new holiday tradition: sending and receiving red packets via social media. On the eve of 2017 lunar new year alone, a record of 14.2 billion electronic red packets containing gift money were given and received, with people born in the 1980s being the most active […]
Hokkien, on the tongues of Tsinoys, has grown and evolved, taking on a life of its own. Sometimes words simply fail us. With some creativity, Tsinoys have strung together words to form colorful phrases that simply hit the bull’s eye. Here are some expressions unique to Hokkien as favored by Tsinoys. 長脚骨 teng k’a kut […]
Are you worried about your heart? Don’t feel blue. Go red, and eat red food for your heart. This novel idea comes from the American Heart Association, which recommends that men and women eat red-colored food to protect their hearts. However, America’s short list of red food includes cherries and pomegranates, which are rarities here […]
Xiangqi (Chinese chess 中國象棋) has moves similar to western-style chess (國際象棋). The chessmen of xiangqi are written in Chinese characters whereas those of the western-style chess are carved as figures. Xiangqi is a game for all ages. It is played widely in Asian countries especially in China, where people play the game in public places, […]
If anyone deserves to be recognized as the Father of Philippine Xiangqi or Xiangqi Master of the Philippines, it would be the late Tan Lo Ping (陳羅平), a self-taught xiangqi player who was pivotal in firmly establishing xiangqi as an official sport in the Philippines and introducing world-class xiangqi players formally into the World Xiangqi […]