Skip to content

But the fact remains that you can't fully appreciate Chinese gastronomy without sharing in the pleasures of the quite, the plain, the qingdan as well as the sweet and sour and spicy. Plain dishes are like the empty space that frames and highlights a work of art, They are the necessary corrective to the wild excitements of flavour, restoring physical balance and mental equanimity.

— Fuchsia Dunlop

Another quote →

More quotes by Fuchsia Dunlop

Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing.

Planning a good menu demands experience, a certain amount of knowledge and a good deal of thought. I'm only half-joking when I say that learning how to order well in Chinese restaurants is one of my life's proudest achievements.

All Fuchsia Dunlop quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Fuchsia Dunlop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.