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Back from China and a small risotto according






This is what holidays are finite-rich discoveries in landscapes. China is truly an amazing country. A few kilometers from a city modern, clean, cosmopolitan, suburban and rural areas where time has stopped, not necessarily as clean and prosperous that showcase what Shanghai put forward by a government Chinese eager to seduce. The parallels with New York is now: Shanghai is not China, like New York is not the United States.





walks in the countryside of Sichuan prints with these spas in the Huangshan mountains, sharp or in remote villages in the mid-Ming bamboo where legendary films were shot as Tiger and Dragon impossible to get bored in this China.









Instead of shooting the first scene of the film by Ang Lee "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Many other scenes were filmed in the village and the nearby village Nanpkin.



But too much pollution, giant cities to accommodate an urban population increasingly important. A future of rabbit hutch for the Chinese who used to live in community and end up in 2 parts isolated from each other. What will their future when we know what happened to our ideal cities of the 70s?






Discovery also Shanghainese cuisine of Sichuan cuisine. A discovery which I will talk at greater length in future posts. A spicy and greasy enough that we're pretty tired quickly, especially in the mountains where the regime dim sum, rice, vegetables we quickly tired. It is true that we have not dared to many dishes which floated some chicken feet, pig ears and other oddities unnamed fault translation for us. But we have good restaurants in Shanghai, China but not necessarily Thai, Japanese and French.

The Street Food was much more interesting with the exception of stinky tofu or tofu smelly ... nothing to add.

















And finally the Exposition Universelle, and the immense excessiveness of the country. Too many people, the queues, a French flag very disappointing but some gems like the flags of English and English houses of the future. The Rhône-Alpes also had its own flag and the Alsace region. Bocuse there was a table very run by the community of French expatriates and Chinese.







Back to Paris and pick up the thread of history of the blog had been abandoned for nearly three weeks, a recipe for sweet Christophe Michalak, not as one might have expected, but salt : risotto with candied ginger, lime and parmesan. A natural link to China with the candied ginger.




calamansi I took back from China that look like tiny limes. They are of the same family as kumquats. Too good in lemonade ice. I think they are also called Chinese lemons.




Risotto candied ginger, lime (calamansi) and Parmesan Christophe Michalak
For two people
2 large handfuls of arborio rice
250 ml chicken stock
1 lime or 2 calamansi bio

2 shallots 1 clove garlic parmesan

50 g 40 g 25 g ginger
olive oil

Boil your chicken broth with garlic. Remove garlic after 10 min of infusion.
Mince the shallots and fry in oil Olive. Add rice and stir until the rice becomes translucent and pearly. Add to oven and when the chicken stock until cooked rice which takes between 17 and 20 minutes. Add cubes of candied ginger, lime zest and big shavings of parmesan. let your risotto covered for 4 minutes before serving.

Delicious when a cube of candied ginger in your mouth and explodes with fresh acidity calamansi.




Not really in Paris this season but delicious lemonade at the Brunch at URBN hotel.