Since restaurant reviews and food articles have been reduced on funkrocks (we had to make more room for younger+hipper content. hah!), here is a website which is a great resource for all things edible. eGullet is an established forum of food lovers, chefs, restaurateurs, and food TV junkies. Their loyal users can be counted for detailed recipes, restaurant reviews, and snobbish commentary. Of course, many of these people are experts in there field so some snobbery should be expected.

Still not interested in the Gullet? Check out some of these detailed recipes for authentic chinese food. This user, W.K. Leung, puts cookbook quality recipes for almost every popular dish at cantonese and schezwan restaurants. Here are some of my favorites.

Potstickers

Wonton Soup

Mabo Tofu

Imperial Shrimp

Cantonese Fried Chicken

The pictures and step by step instructions must have taken forever to assemble, but these recipes are very common on this site.

Aside from obvious experts who post recipes like those listed above, there are also well known figures in the culinary world.

One instance where some prominent food figures mixed it up with everyday egullet users was during an argument over foie gras. The debate wasn’t too thrilling, but if you looked at who was participating, you could spot 2 “celebrities” in the fray.

One was Anthony Bourdain, who has the eGullet handle “bourdain”. He’s actually a frequent poster on eGullet. He was executive chef at NYC’s Les Halles and has appeared on many tv shows: No Reservations, Top Chef, A Cook’s Tour and more. He is also the author of many food and travel books including his classic culinary autobiography, Kitchen Confidential. Interesting Bourdain trivia: he is a rabid anti-vegetarian…so watch out hippies. For more, check out his Travel Channel blog.

Another eGullet user who jumped in the foie gras debate, was author, Michael Ruhlman. He wrote a fantastic book called, The Soul of a Chef. You can read his blog here.

A really heated topic of discussion on eGullet is which celebrity chefs are the most annoying. It is pretty hilarious to see perky Rachel Ray getting brutally dissed by the net grannies on eGullet. She did nuttin to no one!

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