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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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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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A Fairy Tale Dinner with a Fairy Blogger

November 30, 2011 blog meet-up

I’ve never liked Disney fairy tales very much even as a little girl. (Picture credit by Tumblr) Sleeping Beauty was more like Weeping Idiot to me because all she did was boo-hoo about the stranger who randomly joined her in an awful song and then the moron had to go prick her finger on a [...]

Tagged as: beef, bel air, dessert, dinner, disney, grapefruit, hotel bel-air, kabocha, mushrooms, princess, salad, seafood, truffles, wolfgang puck

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A Super Biased Post by a Brainwashed West Coast Apple-Lover

November 27, 2011 eating out

Just a couple weeks ago, I was a proud and obsessed owner of an iPhone 4G. I even wrote a post dedicating my love to it. Now I’m a disgruntled owner of a “gently used” Droid Incredible that I bought via Craiglist, from a person who upgraded into an iPhone. In other words, I downgraded [...]

Tagged as: beef, bread, cafe, doughboys, egg, focaccia, froyo, grove, Hollywood, Los Angeles, lunch, sandwich, soup, spinach

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The Parents Service and Fried Sauce Noodles

October 18, 2011 eating out

I wish my parents will just move to the west coast already. They were only visiting for four days, but I almost got used to coming back home from school and discovering my apartment sparkling clean. Only parents would do something like that. Fatigued by jet lag and three weeks of missionary work, and yet [...]

Tagged as: beef, chili, chinese, cilantro, dumplings, edamame, fried, noodles, pork, pumpkin, San Gabriel Valley, shrimp, soup, tofu

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The Bunny’s Fat Spoon

October 16, 2011 dinner event

It’s amusing how much you take after a parent, from the shape of your eyes, the width of your nose, to your personality and interests. As much as I would love to have inherited my mom’s sweet gentleness, I mostly take after my dad. I have his temper. I have his stubbornness. I have his [...]

Tagged as: beef, curry, fusion, Japanese, little tokyo, pasta, rice, seafood, short ribs, shrimp

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