Ahead of China’s Qingming Festival holiday in April, Tianshui, a relatively small city in Gansu Province, saw travel bookings jump more than 20% on platforms such as Ctrip. Since March, tourists have been flocking to the city – previously mainly known for a series of Buddhist rock carvings and grottos – to sample a local dish: Tianshui malatang. Malatang (literally ‘numbing, spicy, hot’) is a popular street food dish in …
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If you’re remotely interested in China, especially Chinese cuisine, it’s been hard to avoid Fuchsia Dunlop’s new book, Invitation to a Banquet (Penguin) recently. It’s also hard to imagine that many CBBC members haven’t got at least one of Fuchsia’s cookbooks on their kitchen shelf. But Invitation to a Banquet is a little different. Rather than recipes, it’s the epic tale of the world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through …