Tuesday mind-wandering: food blogging is weight watching?
Bánh bía from Tường Ký Fast Food. Filling: taro paste with salted egg yolk, would have been perfect without bits of candied winter melon. $13 per box of 4. I’m having writer’s block. Don’t know if...
View ArticleLittle Texas Cookbook
Found this little guy on a bookshelf at home. I couldn’t sleep last night and was browsing the shelves for something to read (which is obviously a great idea to cure insomnia – the more I read the...
View ArticleThe macaron that keeps you wanting for more
What defines a good macaron? I googled, but found only “10 signs of a bad macaron“. My pâtissière friend Hanna Lim told me a few criteria: a good macaron should look smooth on the surface, crunchy...
View ArticleFace the omnivore’s dilemma
Did you know that the koala, the pickiest eater on Earth, has a brain so small that “doesn’t even begin to fill up its skull”? The variety of one’s diet correlates with the size of one’s brain....
View ArticleMasterChef U.S. Season 4 Mid-Season Commentary
Masterchef is a reality TV show that currently airs on Fox and is in its 4th season. I’ve watched the show for three seasons now (I missed out on the first season), and have been increasingly bothered...
View ArticleHUB Berkeley Innovation Dinner – food, food for thoughts, and some afterthoughts
Berkeley is known for many things. The protests, the hippies, the arts, homeless people, the diversity and the acceptance of that diversity (you can literally see every type of people and every type...
View ArticleFood and Film: 4 short animations with food
Short films are the best, because sometimes I get cravings in the middle of the night and there are no restaurants open (I wish something opened between midnight and 5 am, a rice porridge stall or a...
View ArticleAndy Warhol’s quotes on food
Around spring of 2012, I discovered The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. I’m not a fan of his art works. (I like traditional arts, he’s the most prominent figure in American pop arts, which I actually find...
View ArticleSave one meal each month for moon bears
This is Wilfred. He lives in Chengdu, China. He’s an early-middle-age moon bear (not because he’s from the Moon but because like everyone in his species, he has a moon-shape patch of yellow fur on his...
View ArticleBlue Trout and Black Truffles – a journey through Europe in 300 pages
Blue Trout and Black Truffles by J. Wechsberg (Academy Chicago Publishers, Second printing 2001), but the book seems to have been published in German as well (Forelle blau und schwarze Trüffeln...
View ArticleJudy and Loving Live Treats
The cookies are wrapped in packages of three - one can surprisingly satiate your hunger, and there are two more to share with friends. It's all about sharing. [...] Continue reading Judy and Loving...
View ArticlePretty Good Number One bucket list
Go to Tokyo. Visit the Odaiba Takoyaki Museum. Practise using chopsticks correctly and buy a (few) pairs at Kappabashi. Eat shave ice and watch fireworks (and people) on the Sumida river bank in July....
View ArticleFood and film: Rinco’s Restaurant
This movie is Slow Food personified. It is about food that’s cooked in a slow way (literally), and the movie itself is at a pace that could not be slower. Since childhood, the protagonist has always...
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