Food for thought

A former reporter's book published in November is a collection of his adventures as a rambling foodie. Li Yingxue reports.

From roast mutton in Northeast China and a 10-year-old sorghum wine in a small town in Sichuan province to a bowl of rice noodles at a Vietnamese restaurant in Paris, Wang Kai has eaten them all. He still remembers how the food tasted and even the expression on a waitress' face.

Wang, who was a reporter with Sanlian Life Weekly, a popular magazine with 300,000 readers, for 10 years, earlier covered the Wenchuan earthquake, the crash of a plane carrying the Polish president and other stories in his journalism career. But as he traveled around China and the world, he was also looking for something else－stories about food.

His book Langshiji (Adventures with Food), published in November by Peking University Press, is a collection of his adventures as a rambling foodie.

When writing about food, Wang is fluent and funny. "Food is my window to observe the world," says Wang.