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Recipe/Shipping Ideas for China
maybe next time I'm there I should have things posted to her instead of me.
Recipe/Shipping Ideas for China
one other point to help: if she can send you her address in Chinese, print it out and put it on the box next to the address in English. Mail zips through the Chinese post a lot faster when they don;t need to find an English speaker to direct it. I'd usually get stuff in about half the time, even when I lived on the coast. Should help a lot towards cutting down on staleness/ abusive handling
Recipe/Shipping Ideas for China
I lived in China for four years, and most of the basic American cooking fare can be found fairly easily, especially in Shanghai. However, the one thing that I really missed, and know travels well through the (sometimes abusive and/or intrusive) Chinese post, are cookies. Chinese baked sweets are typically covered in buttercream and (wish I was joking) sometimes also have rousong, a dried 'pork floss.'
I always appreciated people sending me cookies/brownies, and they survived very well. Most Chinese kitchens, even nice ones, don't have an oven, so home baking is usually not an option. If you have a family recipe or local favorite, that will be even more well received. Hope this helped
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I know it's a Singaporean specialty, but shouldn't being Hainanese Chicken make it a Chinese dish?