Hotpot is a Chinese cooking method similar to fondue, is a very popular Chinese New Year dish. Find out why!

Do you know the meaning or significance of the Chinese zodiac system and what each of the 12 animals represent?

Our children have started playing football matches in the local school league and as you can imagine it's now Eat, Sleep, Football, Repeat during game season...

Li Bai, 李白, one of China's most prolific poets, used 4 lines of 5 Chinese characters while he reminisced about being with his family.

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, 鬼节 (guǐ jié) is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain Asian countries.  In ...

Behind every great man is a great woman, or so the saying goes, which generally implies that the great women is often the wife or partner. Perhaps it is the ...

Qing Ming 清明 is a day for the Chinese to celebrate life and honour their ancestors. This is a popular Tang Dynasty poem written by Du Mu 杜牧 about Qing Ming F...

2019 is the Year of the Pig starting from Feb. 5, 2019 (i.e. Chinese New Year) to Jan. 24, 2020. The Pig is the twelfth animal in the 12-year cycle of the Ch...

If you want to impress the in laws, grandparents or the other halves during Chinese New Year, here are few basic phrases (if you don’t already know them by h...

Chinese paper-cutting (剪纸 jiǎn​ zhǐ​) originated from traditional ancestral and deity worship, and it is one of the oldest and most popular traditions in Chi...

DIY Training Chopsticks in 3 Simple Steps You will need: A rubber band A pair of disposable bamboo chopsticks (including the paper wrapper) Separate the chop...

The Chinese are thought to have used chopsticks as early as 1200 B.C., firstly as a cooking utensil. It was not until A.D. 400 that people began eating with ...

In our previous blog post we wrote about the many types of Chinese dumplings and a brief history of its origins and importance. We strongly believe that the ...

饺子 (jiǎozi) or Chinese dumpling is a quintessential dish in China that is consumed and appreciated throughout the country all year round in various different...

Trick or treat! 不给糖，就捣蛋 (bù gěi táng, jiù dǎo dàn) Unless you have been too flustered with the kids this half term, you'd probably have noticed your local re...

Qixi festival (七夕节), falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the Chinese calendar and is also known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. According ...

Every year during summer, lesbian (女同), gay (男同), bisexual (双性恋), and transgender (变性人) people all across the world particpate in street marches to celebrate...

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as 端午节 (duān ​wǔ ​jié)​ in Chinese. The festival is also known as the Double Fifth Festival as it is celebrated on the 5th ...

The Dragon Boat Festival is a 2,000 year old tradition. It commemorates the life and death Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and respectable minister in the court of...

粽子(zòng​zi​) is a traditional treat made in the lead up to the Dragon Boat Festival. They are very tedious to make, as such making them becomes a family effo...