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Liu Yang outside his shop in Huilongguan in North Beijing.
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Liu Yang outside his shop with two of his three assistants.
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A selection of cheese nicely made in China.
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Liu Yang with a selection of his cheese.
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From the left: Liu Yang, Wu Yi, Xu Jiang Yo and Huang Zhi Wei in the Huilongguan shop.
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Liu Yang with a tomme in the maturing room.
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Liu Yang and his assistant Huang Zhu Wei in the laboratory
At Nicely Made in China we like to eat and what better way to end a good meal but with some cheese! But as it turns out it’s not easy to find good cheese in Beijing at decent prices. If that was one of your problems, NMiC found the man who can help. Liu Yang, a Heilongjiang native, makes cheese. All sorts of cheese. In an interview conducted “dans la langue de Voltaire” he gives NMiC readers a crash course in cheese making.
Liu Yang, few people would imagine finding a “fromagerie artisanale” in North Beijing. Can you tell your story for Nicely Made in China readers?
I discovered cheese in France while studying management at the university of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand in the Massif Central in 2001. To greet the 50 newly arrived Chinese students the university had organized a buffet. I remember there were a lot of different cheese Read the rest of this entry »