This weekend, my sister and I decided to make a last-minute trek out to Flushing, NY, where my grandparents and cousins live. After a little bit of coordination on my and Sarah’s end to get into Chinatown from our respective locations, we hopped on a dinky shuttle into Flushing for a fun day of food
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Life & Travel
The other day, I had a mega-craving for Thai food. But, alas, I didn’t have any Thai basil on hand, or rice noodles (because of course, like the uh…non-Thai person that I am, the things that I most associate with Thai cooking are pad gra prow (Thai basil stir-fry) and pad Thai). BUT I did
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It’s our next recipe in the “Cooking with Grandma” series! With only five ingredients, it’s amazing how good this is: Pork Belly with Bell Peppers and Woodear Mushrooms. But I think that has a lot to do with what Chinese cooking is: just a few simple ingredients and amazing results. Virtually the only prep you
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One thing I’ve learned in Beijing is that everyone is pretty health conscious. That includes drinking lots of tea and water during the day, drinking lukewarm or hot water and never cold/ice water, eating on time and never skipping meals, and coworkers taking power naps at their desks. Some time ago, Judy bought me a
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Scallion pancakes or Cong You Bing (葱油饼) are the quintessential Chinese snack. When we were younger, my sister and I used to come home from school and take a scallion pancake out of the freezer to relieve those after-school hunger pangs. You can find them in restaurants, the frozen foods section of the Chinese grocery store,
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So, uh…I was going to post a recipe today. Blackberry squares. I was excited. There I was… Toasting walnuts. Taking out these lovely frozen blackberries… Thawing them out to perfection… Mixing sugar and butter and yogurt…with lemon zest and vanilla. And sifting in some flour… So then I start mixing in the flour, and I’m
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My first cell phone was a cheap flip phone that cost $10. I got it when I was in eighth grade, not too long after an incident at a large outdoor festival when I got lost and a little bit more than panicky, wandering aimlessly across the grass hoping to cross paths with my parents
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This tilapia fish recipe kind of snuck up on me. It’s really simple to make and was my mom’s healthy, tasty, and no-fuss way of preparing those on-sale fillets that we had in the freezer. The first time my mom made it, I was like: “Hmm. This is kinda good!” Jokes aside…I quickly forgot about it
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