You know how sometimes there are just those mornings when all you want is a pancake? I had one of those mornings last week.  So I made pancakes. I just happened to have flour (ok, so that’s not surprising– I always have flour), eggs, sugar, etc. Actually what I did have that I don’t always have [...] Read Full Story

My brother was reading my food blog yesterday, and apparently he complained to my mother: “為什麼都是姊姊的照片? 為什麼都沒有我的呢?” Translation: Why are all the pictures of my sister?  Where are my pictures? Oh le sigh. Funny kid. Anyway, here is a picture of him enjoying a fry when we went to Five Guys last month when I went home for a [...] Read Full Story

Ok, so you know it had to come down to this at some point, right?  I am originally from the East Coast, but now I’m living on the West Coast.  When I first moved out here and people found out how much I love to eat, the first thing I people asked was “Oh, have [...] Read Full Story

Yay birthdays.  I’m still young enough to not be scared of them but old enough to know that I better enjoy that feeling while it lasts, because it isn’t going to last much longer.   Actually, my philosophy about birthdays is that it isn’t so much about me as it is about my friends.  I see any [...] Read Full Story

I really didn’t like eggplant much as a kid.  I mean, come on!  A purple vegetable?  Gross!  That being said, I think a good part of my dislike of eggplant was the fact that I had only had poorly cooked, tough-skinned, American eggplant.  You know, the big, fat, bulbous, so-dark-the-purple’s-almost-black kind.  As I grew older, [...] Read Full Story

Cindy is the eldest cousin on my dad’s side.  She and Tom recently got married at Berkeley Gardens, and, as I said in my last entry, my father and my brother both flew out from the East Coast to join in the celebrations (unfortunately, baby bro just started high school, and so he and my [...] Read Full Story

My cousin, Cindy, got married last month (August 30, 2009!), to a wonderfully tall British boy named Tom.  To celebrate their wedding, my father and my brother flew out to California from Maryland the prior Friday. I went to pick them up, then took them to dinner with my friend, Lisa.  We went to the Inner [...] Read Full Story

Korean food is possibly one of the healthiest cuisines I know (with the exception of the fatty pork, sam keup sal, and other assorted barbecues).  But the regular dishes that are eaten by Koreans on a normal basis – kimchi being a staple side dish- are usually vegetables.  And the vegetables are usually pickled (the [...] Read Full Story

I love eating mung bean soup in the summer.  It’s cold, slightly sweet, and a little bit grainy.  I know most people don’t really jump at the sound of a bean soup as dessert, but I love mung bean soup. People drink this soup to lower their body’s “heat,” thus it’s an ideal soup to drink [...] Read Full Story

Korean barbecue has a dear place in my heart.  I may not be Korean, but whenever my family has a barbecue in the summer, instead of the traditional burgers and hot dogs, we inevitably have kalbi and bulgogi (Korean beef ribs and thinly-sliced beef pieces respectively).  I mean, we generally have homemade potato salad, sometimes [...] Read Full Story