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Chinese New Year without Hong Baos

January 30, 2012 dinner event

I miss a lot of things about Singapore, but one thing I’ve been missing, especially during this Chinese New Year season, is the hong baos. Hong bao—literally, “red package” (红包)— is a little red envelope that relatives and elders give to single people. They are filled with real CASH. In Korea, we call it “sae [...]

Tagged as: beef, bun, casserole, chinese, dean sin world, dumplings, fish, meatballs, montery park, noodles, pork, shanghai, xiao long bao

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Weekend ED Series: How Blogging Helped My Eating Disorder

January 29, 2012 eating disorders

If you look at the archive listed by month on my sidebar (peek to the right), you’ll see that I first started blogging December 2008. That was around the time when I had just arrived in Singapore. I was at the uphill of my recovery, and I’ve been blogging ever since. Blogging has helped my [...]

Tagged as: eating disorders

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When I feel FAT

January 23, 2012 dinner event

Is there a word as disgusting, taboo and feared as F-A-T? Not at this age, in this society. I can’t speak for all the women in the world, but the word “fat” isn’t in my daily verbal repertoire. But guess what? That word enters my mind pretty frequently. It happens mostly when I’m stressed out. [...]

Tagged as: burger, eating disorders, farmer's market, grove, Hollywood, lamb, Little Spain, Los Angeles, milkshake, Short Order, Spanish, tapas

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Weekend ED Series: How to conquer the fear of eating out

January 21, 2012 eating disorders

There are a lot of quotes about laughter. “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter,” said Mark Twain, my American literary hero. “It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart,” said Martin Luther King, Jr., my activist hero. “A great many people [...]

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The best Thai Town outside of Thailand

January 19, 2012 dinner event

Some people caution parents of young kids never to waste time and money on exotic travels. I think there’s some truth in it. When I was young, my parents took me, my brother and my cousin (who lived with our family for 10 years) around the countries of Southeast Asia whenever they could afford it. [...]

Tagged as: Asian, beef, blood, dessert, Hollywood, Los Angeles, noodles, taro, tendons, Thai, thai town, tripe

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Somebody stole my nuts

January 16, 2012 eating out

I had a flip-flopsy day today. In the morning, I sent off my friend Joanna (who slept over) in a good mood. I met my other friend Jordan in a good mood. I spent the whole day laughing and joking and feeling awesome and loving to all peoples. Since we had the day off for [...]

Tagged as: dinner, Geisha House, Hollywood, Japanese, sushi

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