Category: food
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Snow Crab and Asparagus Risotto
I am one of those typical Asians who grew up eating rice all my life. I could not imagine not having rice for an entire week. When I went to Italy for over two weeks, all I had was pasta and meat and I was getting homesick and tired of the food. When I finally…
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Steamed Egg
A lot of time, many of my recipes are halved or used very little egg. And I’m left with all this egg! I couldn’t possibly throw it away! So I normally save the egg to make steamed egg. I find it’s the poor people food because it’s mostly water. My mom makes this all the…
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Spicy Tuna Stuffed in Panko Crusted Squid
One of the things I love about tuna is that it can taste like meat if you cook it right. So when I originally tried this menu Spicy Tuna Stuffed Squid Tempura by Jennifer Yu of Use Real Butter (by the way, she has AWESOME photos on her website!), I thought, wow, it was amazing!…
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Wild Flower Lime-ade
I love flowers. There’s no doubt about that. I’m intrigued by them, drawn to them, and probably in my last life, I was a flower myself. One of my gifts happened to be a wild hibiscus flower in syrup (or you could also purchase it at Macy’s Cellar). Since it’s summer (though today is a…
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Tour of Sweet Eateries in the Village
It’s been awhile since I’ve made plans to go out and explore the city. Mostly, it had been dreary, cold, and a stressful start to the year. Mother nature worked out on my side as fog and rain dissipated to warmth and sun. I walked through Soho to find a beautiful public artwork on the…
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A Slice of Pizza and Life
This weekend has been one of those weekend I wish I could take away all the bad things and keep only the good things. There are times where you wonder, what is a life? What happens after life? Will I see you again? Will I see her again? Will they remember me? Am I really…
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Fire Roasted Vegetables
Living so close to Costco has been amazing and difficult. Amazing that food is so available but difficult with what I want but can’t/shouldn’t have. The task with living in New York is carting everything back and finding places to store them. How does one bring it back? I’ve yet to use what I call…
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Sour Mango
Having made the shrimp namtok with mango, I had nearly a full mango left! What to do? I know it’s not summer but I love sour mango so I used something my mom used to make for us when she wanted us to eat fruits. It’s super sour, super spicy, and a hint of sweet…
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Shrimp namtok
Namtok means waterfall in Thai. Why then would a grill beef salad be called that? I’ve heard stories that the way the juices from the meat is cooked with the sauces looks like a waterfall, hence the name. In any case, I love having beef namtok in the summer. A filling cooling salad with taste!