Qing Hua
Less than a week since its reopening, I’ve had teh pleasure to both eat in and take out at Qing Hua, an amazing but small dumpling restaurant here in Montreal.
In their kitchen run by mostly women, each dumpling is stuffed, wraped and cooked to order. The clever clothes-peg numbering system helps the cooks and waiters keep track of each plate and variety of dumpling, because variety is what they have! At an average of $9 to $14 for 15 to 18 dumplings, the price is hard to beat fur such a fullfilling experience.
The reoppening of Qing Hua signifies the end of bland wonton soups and sheds light onto their delightfully soft, chewy and juicy mouthfuls.
Would I pay for that? I’ve eaten there twice in fours days…what do you think?
Out of my fridge
Food is our common ground, a universal experience – James Beard
Every one’s gotta eat! It’s simple enough, a basic survival instinct. Lucky for us we’re at the top of the food chain and have opposable thumbs at our disposal. Now, it’s time to put them to good use and rekindle that long lost love affair with your knife and skillet. The best meal comes right out my own fridge and is at the core of my daily life. I live for every meal. Yes I love food, I love preparing food, but most importantly I adore the moments that food creates. The moments range from heading to the market on a sunny Saturday, chopping onions with goggles on, taming flare-ups on the bbq, sitting down for a hearty stew on a cold winter day, and perhaps one too many glasses of wine with friends and family. Just as simply, it can be sharing an ingredient, a recipe, a technique that will be passed on from one kitchen to another, and today that is my goal. Together we’ll get a few burns, heal a few scars, create some memories. This is my everyday kitchen and I hope you enjoy it.
