… sparks a quest for the perfect Hainanese chicken rice.
But before anything else, welcome to my brief round up of Hong Kong eats. Brief because when I checked my pictures, a lot of food pictures were missing due to overeager eaters … again.
My "muni-muni" (soul-searching) pose
The picture above was a product of my recent addiction [...]
[Read more →]
Tags:Hainanese chicken·Hong Kong food
"The hot chocolate hut" photo by: Mark Perez
If there was one reservation that the "Hungry" Hubby had about me being in the Philippines for 5-6 weeks was that I’d come back the size of a whale. So he had a talk with my two brothers, who were the usual suspects and associates in my food [...]
[Read more →]
Tags:baguio eats·chocolate batirol·manila·ongpin
What can I say? I’ve been MIA for more than a month. Some of you knew I went home to the Philippines, while some of you emailed me wondering if I had turned my back on blogging. The truth is, when you stop blogging for a couple of weeks because someone still had dial-up internet [...]
[Read more →]
Tags:Baguio City·wet market
Photo Credit: guides.clickthecity.com Was I-em-ming with my brother who lives in the Philippines and he was telling me about this restaurant called FU that he had gone to recently. No one gets Peking Duck really right in Richmond, Va -…
[Read more →]
Tags:
Dots Cupcake Calendar 2009 Dots Cupcake in Pasedana, California just came out with the most adorable calendar of this much-loved sweet. I think I am in the grips of a very bad case of cupcake fever and ordered more than…
[Read more →]
Tags:Dots Cupcake calendar
*please excuse the crappy photo…bad lighting- and no degree of food styling would have helped
This past holiday season, after attending several parties, I realized I am not a maker of side dishes. I blame it on culture -…
[Read more →]
Tags:Potato gratin
I know I have not posted in a while. First , I had a kitchen disaster while making Tah-Chin, the delicious Persian rice dish that is made with saffron. I failed to acquire the coveted crust called tah-dig and I…
[Read more →]
Tags:
Whenever I get asked an opinion about going to cooking school, I always mention two books that would give one an idea of what it is like: Michael Ruhlman’s The Making of a Chef and Kathleen Flinn’s The Sharper Your…
[Read more →]
Tags:the less you cry·The sharper your knife
Why are the best-tasting food bad for your health? I think I consider that the biggest injustice a foodie faces. The solution is not really avoidance but moderation, right? Anyway, my brother is in town with his family – visiting…
[Read more →]
Tags: