Columnist--Ye Jun

Ye Jun has been working with China Daily since 1997. After covering entertainment and health, he turned to write about Chinese food and restaurants in 2004. In the last eight years he has tried hundreds of restaurant in Beijing and throughout China, discovering its thousand-year old culinary culture and tradition.

Ye Jun has also travelled overseas on food tours. He wrote about wine and food matching, and food and olive oil matching. Food is Chinese people's life. Beijing is a hodgepodge of Chinese regional cuisines, as well as food styles from around the world. Through his visits to new and old Chinese restaurants, Ye Jun hopes to reveal to you a very true side of ordinary Chinese people's lives.