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Tag Archives: food
Making popcorn
The Historical Photographs of China project team were delighted to see in a recently digitised album a sequence of three photographs showing popcorn being made the Chinese way, c.1938: When this blogger was in Shanghai in 2011, I photographed … Continue reading
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Tagged Carstairs, food, Morrison, popcorn, Shanghai, street
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Mid-day meal at a street food kitchen, Peking, 1915-1920
The Historical Photographs of China project was recently kindly given a copy of ‘The Pageant of Peking’. Published in Shanghai in 1920 and bound in exquisite gold blocked turquoise silk, this coffee (or tea) table book is introduced by Putnam … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral, advertisement, Ballard, Beijing, carrier, cook, eat, food, lunch, Mennie, pedlar, Peking, people, photogravure, pictorialism, steam
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Seasonal greetings!
Compliments of the season to all friends of ‘Visualising China‘.
Boy with silk animal face hat, Kunming, 1945
Traditionally, animal face hats were made by a maternal grandmother for her grandson. The animal face – especially the large teeth and eyes – would frighten evil spirits away and so protect the infant. The fruit being sold at the … Continue reading
Drying noodles between sticks
There is an account of the traditional way of making (‘swinging’) noodles by hand in ‘Classic Food of China’ (1992) by Yan-Kit So: from dancing the dough to splitting it into noodle strands takes a noodle master about fifteen minutes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaton, food, noodle, Palmer
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