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Avocados: From Grove to Store

March 5, 2013 blog meet-up

A couple weeks ago, my friend Hannah introduced me a TED talk with a scandalous title: “When Ideas Have Sex.” It’s a short clip, about 16 minutes long. We watched it together while sipping beer and munching oil-drizzled dolmas. I suggest you do that too, because the speaker, Matt Ridley, will bring a fascinating perspective [...]

Tagged as: #CAAvocados, avocado, California Avocado Commission, Mission Produce Packing House, Oxnard, Santa Paula, tour

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A story about a North Korean restaurant

February 21, 2013 eating out

Occasionally in your life, you meet people who immediately make your heart bleed with tenderness. I’ve met several people like that. Some of them, I got to know better. Others disappear after just a brief encounter. I wonder if you know what I’m talking about. They are people who for some reason, instantly fills you [...]

Tagged as: dumplings, interview, kimchi, Korean, koreatown, maeuntang, North Korea, pancake, seafood, soondae, Yu Hyang Soon Dae

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Happy Black Day!

February 15, 2013 eating out

I’ve never celebrated Valentines Day before. I have no animosity towards it. I don’t feel blue about my singlehood during that day when my girlfriends plan romantic dinners and receive roses at their doorstep. So what if I don’t get flowers or chocolate? The next day I can boo-yah on 50 percent-marked down heart-shaped candies. [...]

Tagged as: beef, Black Day, dinner, jajangmyun, jjambbong, Korean cultue, koreatown, meatballs, seafood, Shin Beijing, Valentines Day, White Day

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Product of U.S.A

January 30, 2013 My story

I was 14 in my eight-grade Civics class when I made a decision to be someone I can never, ever be. I told myself I would be the first female Asian President of the United States. The obstacle was this little green passport issued by the Republic of Korea. I knew enough basic Civics to [...]

Tagged as: American, citizenship, dim sum, God bless the USA, Pomona

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A 25-year-old Daughter

January 9, 2013 family

Northern Virginians driving through the streets of Vienna, Virginia, may have seen an Asian girl hopping and bopping on the sidewalks. That girl was me. Many times I walked those sidewalks with my earphones on, my iPhone blasting the top hit songs on Pandora. I sang at the top of my lungs to Taylor Swift’s [...]

Tagged as: christianity, dumplings, kimchi, Korean

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We survived

December 31, 2012 dinner event

The world survived 2012. We as a world survived natural disasters, senseless tragedies, fiery demonstrations, notable deaths, a presidential election, gridlock over a fiscal cliff, underground and publicized human rights violations, a misinterpreted Mayan prophecy of doom, USC’s devastating football game loss to UCLA… We as individuals survived relationship conflicts, uncertainties, loneliness, and whatever daily [...]

Tagged as: 2013, fishcake, happy new year, prayer, shabu shabu, steamboat

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