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A Tale of Two Cities – Beijing and Hong Kong
“I’m an alien. I’m a legal alien…” – the words of the Sting song get stuck in my head as I read the sign in the lift as it climbs to the 21st floor in Shane & Shan’s apartment. Of course I have...
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From Duncannon via Beijing – Shananigans Pulled Pork
Well hello there. I’m the pool of liquid on the sofa in Shane and Shan’s Beijing apartment trying my best to reconstitute myself into human form. I am back in China for a second time in as many months...
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Longevity Village and a Grill Mates BBQ on the outskirts of Beijing
It’s Friday night and I have been watching Des Bishop on the Late Late Show, clips from his “Breaking China” series a welcome reminder of our time in Beijing. Truth is I am homesick for my home from...
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Sichuan Dinner at Yuxiang Kitchen
Thank you for your patience kind readers as I indulge myself with a post a day for the nine days of my #NaiNaiVisit to Beijing. The trip is drawing to a close and normal slow-moving service with a...
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A Taste of Yunnan Province at Feng Huang Zhu Restaurant Beijing
The English wooden sign on the door simply says Yun Nan Restaurant Bar but Shan tells me the Chinese characters read Feng Huang Zhu - which translates as Phoenix Bamboo. It is an unprepossessing place...
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Sichuan Fish Hotpot at San Zhi Er, Beijing
Every now and again I have a meal in China that pushes me outside my comfort zone. I shouldn’t be surprised by that. Many travellers to China find the food challenging at times, the myriad tastes and...
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Shan’s Home-style Chinese Dinner
This is how the blog began – with Shan teaching me how to cook authentic Chinese dishes at home. Looking back at my very first post in July 2012, it all seems such a long time ago. At first it was a...
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Hunan dinner at Pindian Cuisine, Wangjing
I have to hand it to my daughter-in-law Shan. She keeps pushing out the boundaries when it comes to our dining experiences in Beijing – both geographically and in terms of the food. She has been...
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Beijing Zoo
I remember my own first trip to Dublin Zoo, petting the donkey at the Children’s Corner and posing at the Wishing Seat in a little pink coat to have my photo taken. I can’t have been more than four...
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Japanese style dinner at Taikiku Beijing
Day 2 of #NaiNaiVisit and I’m fighting off jet-lag, falling asleep at odd moments in the middle of the day, drifting off on the sofa as soon as we get back from dinner and awake writing blog posts at...
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Making Chinese Dumplings (jiaozi) from Scratch – an unlikely cure for jet-lag
It was a gloomy November Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours after I had arrived back from Beijing. Winter had sneaked up on Ireland while I was away, the evenings were closing in and there was a...
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It’s hard to say goodbye
Shane, Shan and Dermot What can I tell you about my grandson who was 9 months old this week … That he has the most infectious giggle and finds the adults around him hilarious. That he loves to play nai...
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Gong Bao Chicken
One of the many things I love about a trip to Beijing is the chance to attend a few cookery classes, pick up new recipes and tips and improve techniques under the watchful eye of a professional Chinese...
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Happy reunions and three more ways with Pizza on the Big Green Egg
Moments don’t come much sweeter. Throughout the 18 hour journey from Dublin I quelled my nervous anticipation about meeting Dermot again. I practised my “happy face” to mask my disappointment when he...
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Yesterday we moved apartment
This is a guest post from my son Shane. He wrote it a few weeks ago on the day he, Shan, Dermot and MaMa moved apartment. I hope you enjoy it. Yesterday we moved apartment. It is a normal, everyday...
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Food Fit for an Emperor – Pine Nut and Beef Stir-fry
My grandson is 7 months old today and I’ve found a good reason to visit Beijing in late October. Not that I need much of an excuse with him growing bigger by the day and a yearning to be with him that...
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100 days of Dermot
It is this simple. Without Baby Shananigans there would have been no Shananigans blog. I was already smitten by Chinese food and culture when we visited Beijing last July but it was the news that a...
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Peking Duck at XiHeYaYuan by East Beijing
“Nine times boiling will make nine kinds of changes, that depends on the fire controlling. Sometimes use high heat in cooking, sometimes use gentle. Clearing the fishy, foul and smell of mutton, the...
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Sichuan Spicy Chicken Salad with Home Made Chilli Oil
I figure I’d better give you my lovely readers a few new recipes soon or you will begin to think that this is less of a food blog and more “The Ramblings of a Besotted Nai Nai”. So to start with here...
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On learning, goodbyes and Chao Bing
When I talk to women about leadership I quote Dee Hock who said, sometime late in the last century, that the problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind but how to get the old...
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