Urban food life, consumption behavior, and food culture.
What Chinese New Year feast would be complete without a show-stopping centrepiece dish? Huairou Snail Farm in Beijing offers not just organic vegetables, but also free-range roosters. So, what’s the best way to prepare them? Snail Farm shares their recipe for a “Super Stir-Fried Chicken”. Get ready to feast on…
🧨🧨🧨 On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Foodthink sends its best wishes your way! In the new year, May your life be like fertile ground: sow, and you shall surely reap. May your body be like a growing crop, rooted firmly in the earth, drawing nourishment from…
On 7 February 2026, after a two-year hiatus, “Occupying the Collective Room” returned, successfully evolving into the Foodthink Annual Meeting. Over the course of 12 hours, we used selling vegetables as a hands-on way to immerse ourselves in the food and farming system. Eight Foodthink members traded their roles as…
I. Spreading White to Dry, Hanging Gold to Cure; Fragrant Wine and Curling Smoke From the Start of Winter, amidst the mountain ranges of south-west Zhejiang and across the Songgu Plain, the people of Songyang have already begun preparing for the New Year’s Eve feast. In these valley settlements, cradled…
Looking back at 2025, what news about food and agriculture left the deepest impression on you? Was it the struggle to harvest crops amidst the relentless rains of North China, the delivery platform wars, the heated debates over pre-prepared meals that nearly sparked violence, or…? Over the past year, Foodthink,…
What happens when three people accustomed to long hours at a desk decide to sell vegetables at a community organic produce shop near Sanyuanqiao in Beijing? Will they manage? Staring endlessly at screens, data, and back-to-back meetings, have you ever wondered: what is the point of all this? In this…
A note to all departments: Foodthink’s “Jishi Takeover 3.0” and Annual Gathering Special Project is now officially underway! On Saturday 7 February, from 10:00 to 22:00, we will take over Jishi, the community outlet for the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market at Sanyuanqiao. This is not only the source of ingredients…
I. A “Failed” Strike On the last day of 2025, more than 40,000 food delivery riders across India staged a ‘failed’ strike. It is considered a failure because the strike did not achieve its initial objective. Indian delivery riders hoped that by halting work during the order surge on New…
This is Foodthink’s final post of 2025. Surprise—no year-end roundup! (The honest truth? It hasn’t been dug out of the drafts yet, so please dial again later…) Why not take a look at the fun we got up to at the recent Guangdong Harvest Festival! Co-Creating Climate Sci-Fi Thanks to…
Foodthink Says This marks the sixth instalment of story submissions for Foodthink’s “Eat Something Good” series, themed around “wet markets”. What has surprised us is that, in an age of relentless acceleration, we continue to receive a wealth of personal accounts from readers about these spaces. Set against earlier themes…
