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The Time Out Beijing Food Awards 2011
The art of dining was once lost in China, but it is finding its place again. In Beijing, the restaurant scene and the strata of chefs making it all possible are growing and it is exciting to witness. As eateries continue to flourish, dining out in this city gets better by the day.
This year has seen a profusion of new food-related cottage industries headed by bravehearts. Those working in the restaurant industry deserve recognition. It’s one of the toughest jobs in the world, involving long hours of physical labour and dedication for our dining pleasure. The winners of the Time Out Beijing Food Awards 2011 have been, with the exception of the Readers’ Choice category, decided by our culinary experts.
This year’s panel comprised five experienced journalists with international experience who have eaten their way around the world and tasted the best that Beijing has to offer. Each casts a vote and the group thrashes out the winner. There were plenty of stalemates with tiebreakers requiring repeat visits.
We ate and ate, juggling busy schedules to visit and consider a wide span of restaurants. We thank everyone working in the city’s food industry for their efforts in bringing dining joy to us all.
The categories
Meet the panellists
Lillian Chou is the food editor for Time Out Beijing. She is an American-Chinese born in New York and has previously lived in Korea, Japan and Singapore before joining Gourmet magazine as a food editor, with a previous life spent working in restaurant kitchens. She has contributed to titles including the Los Angeles Times, Time, Food & Wine, Saveur and Kitchendaily.com.
Adrienne Mong has been a Beijing-based producer/correspondent for NBC News since 2007. She has been ‘food obsessed’ for much longer. She occasionally covers stories outside the region, such as Afghanistan and Haiti. Among her toughest assignments? Sourcing ingredients for the dumplings she made for hungry colleagues in Baghdad during trips in 2005 and 2006.
David Pierson is a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing. He was born in Hong Kong, where he learned there was no shame in eating five meals a day, and that the Holy Trinity meant pork, shrimp and, well, pork. He has travelled the globe, falling in love with local food, and spends much of his free time cooking for family and friends.
Keith Richburg has spent more than two decades as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post – half of that time in Asia, and with a stint in New York City. His travels have landed him in some of the world’s gastronomic capitals, such as Paris and Hong Kong, and some lesser-known gems, including Kuala Lumpur’s food stalls and the Kenyan coast. His first trip to China was in 1985.
Tini Tran is a veteran foreign correspondent with The Associated Press. Based in China since 2008, she has spent the last dozen years working in Asia. She has travelled extensively throughout the region and par ts of the Middle East on assignment, which has allowed her to indulge her true passion: eating her way around the globe.
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