Missing an industrial-size popcorn machine from your home kitchen? Here's where to get it (and just about everything food machine-related besides) - the Hotel Equipment Depot on Aomen Lu. This week, a search for fancy dinner plates took me to this four-story warehouse in Shanghai's Putuo District, where you can get anything from candy thermometers to a completely new wok stove. more ›

Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera demonstrates the process whereby pork is made to taste like beef. Gross? Yes. Unhealthy? Maybe. Illegal? Not in China. And to make matters worse, today we found out that 60% of China's 2,200 food additives can't even be tested for due to technical limitations!! more ›

A stampede in a Chongqing Carrefour hypermart has left 3 dead, 24 injured and another 7 seriously injured. The culprit? Cooking oil. As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, a 5-litre bottle of cooking oil that was originally priced at RMB51.40 was to be sold at only RMB39.90. This news was enough to get Chongqingers to start queueing from as early as 4am in the morning. Sometime around 8.20am when the doors were finally open,... more ›

Eating with chopsticks can be tricky for those of us who first picked them up quite late in life. Even though we've been using them for a while, our frequent spillages suggest that we need to refine our chopstick wielding skills. Success in this endeavour will generate the same level of praise hitherto reserved for baby faced Channel V presenters and NBA basketball stars. We may exaggerate, but thanks to Gomestic (via Lifehacker) we have found the definitive seven step guide to becoming a chopstick maven. more ›