I know New Year’s resolutions are overplayed, but I still like the idea of starting off a new year with intention. So here goes. My first goal for 2018 is to stop spoiling movies for myself by reading the summary…
My grandmother..
.. is convinced that drinking water is not good for your health. .. is convinced that five tablespoons of butter on a plate is, in fact, good for your health. .. says adding sunflower oil gives food all of its…
Not all who wander are lost, but what if you are lost? Who do you ask for the directions?
This isn’t the kind of blog that welcomes pithy quotes, but I’ve been in need of a pithy quote lately. I’m fighting another cold, because Shanghai has it out for me, or because the weather has been shifting almost 30…
I am 'pho' sure not making any Pho puns in this post
We just got back from Vietnam last week! My skin is itching from the sunburn and the freckles have come back to my face. I’m exhausted because, despite my best efforts, it’s still impossible for me to sleep on airplanes….
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Recipe: raw, vegan chocolate cashew cheesecake
This dessert is for all of your friends who recoil in fear when you say words like raw, vegan, or gluten-free. If hearing ‘cashew cheese’ sends shivers down their spine, this will be the perfect cake to prove them wrong…
Cooking School in Cambodia
This melange of turmeric root, shallots, lemongrass, galangal, garlic, and chili would soon become the spice paste in our fish amok. The burnt-orange turmeric root is responsible for giving the amok its distinct creamy amber hue. But it also leaves…
How I spent october in Tokyo
I feel like I need to catch this blog and you guys up on everything that’s happened in the last two months. It’s been ages since I wrote my last real post, while spending a few days in Seoul in…
How to do Thanksgiving in Shanghai
It’s not Thanksgiving in China until you bring the turkey legs you bought online to the butcher shop across the street, because they do not fit in the slow-cooker. It’s not really Thanksgiving until the lady in the butcher shop…
Every thing I saw in Seoul
Seoul is entrancing, bizarre, slightly unnerving. There are streets lined with plastic surgery clinics, vaginal rejuvenation centers, so many K-Beauty shops, and bomb shelters. It’s an unusual dichotomy, because the city is so unnaturally alive, but also in imminent danger….