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Meet me at the coffee bar

January 3, 2012 eating out

There’s something nice about having a place you can frequent, almost as though it’s your own hang-out spot. Some people go to bars. They have their favorite bartender to whom they pour out their woes and blabber about their day. For me that is Cafe Demitasse in Little Tokyo. Despite the seeming prevalence of alcohol [...]

Tagged as: cafe demitasse, chocolate, coffee, cookies, little tokyo, marshmallow, tea

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Wine & The City, Video Wrap-Up

October 28, 2011 eating out

It’s my birthday today! I can do whatever I want! So I’m forcing you to watch this silly video that wraps up the Santa Barbara trip: After wine and fun, we were definitely well-fed and well-buzzed, but the time clicked “dinner” so we drove back down to downtown Santa Barbara for our last supper. Tracy [...]

Tagged as: beans, chocolate, deep-fried, dessert, dinner, donuts, rice, salmon, santa barbara, soup

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Wine & the City, Part I

October 24, 2011 eating out

It’s been a crazy, mind-fusing week, and my schedule is going to continue to fizz and foment like an over-shaken soda bottle until this semester ends. You know that feeling. It’s like you’ve been injected with some kind of hyperactive drug and your bloodstream is pounding superhuman energy through your body and your mind is [...]

Tagged as: chocolate, coffee, friends, fruits, lasagna, pasta, pastry, santa barbara, smoothie, vegetarian

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You’ll find me in the kitchen at parties

September 5, 2011 My story

Do you like parties? I’m not talking about the kind of parties where you slip on a little black dress for nightclubs, take shots off a girl’s belly and swing under a disco ball (do those things still exist?).  I’m talking about big, celebratory events like birthday parties, graduation parties, baby showers, bridal showers, etc. [...]

Tagged as: alcohol, baked good, baking, beer, chocolate, coconut, cupcakes, dessert, icing, SFSmarties

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Mission Impossible: $300, five stomachs, one P.F. Chang’s

September 2, 2011 dinner event

I remember when I first visited a Chinese restaurant in America. It was in New Jersey, and I was 12. At the time, I hadn’t emigrated to America yet; I was merely accompanying my parents to their mission trip in America, and I was in New Jersey visiting my then pen pal, Joanna. Joanna’s mother [...]

Tagged as: alcohol, banana, chicken, chinese, chocolate, curry, deep-fried, dessert, dinner, duck, eggplant, fish, lamb, Pasadena, scallop, seafood, shrimp, tea, tofu, tuna, vegetables, vegetarian

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Foodbuzz 24 x 24: 5 Pies, 1 Hand, Much Booze

August 28, 2011 dinner event

I got a nasty scare Friday night. I called my parents as I do almost every evening, and my dad told me that my mother’s heart was palpitating. My mom has had minor heart palpitations ever since she was 13, but it’s been getting worse since she’s gotten older and hit menopause. The palpitations last [...]

Tagged as: alcohol, apple, banana, beer, butter, chocolate, napa cabbage, pie, pork, rosemary, salsa, seafood, shitake, shrimp, tofu, vegetarian

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