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Boys Have Cooties

September 14, 2011 dinner event

It seems like every girl is having guy problems these days. Just in the past two weeks, I’ve heard from at least five of my (girl)friends bemoaning a guy for sending mixed messages. “Why didn’t he ask me out?” “Why didn’t he call?” “What did he mean by that?” Relationships are complicated. But when it [...]

Tagged as: alcohol, bacon, cookies, crostini, deep-fried, dessert, donuts, mozzarella, snack, sorbet, wine

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Punched by a Granny

September 7, 2011 eating out

Yes, you read right. I got punched by a granny. A barely 5-foot-tall, hunch-backed Korean granny, no less. I’m sure you all have had those “What the—?!” moments. That was one of them, and for some reason I’ve been having plenty within this week. The assault by the darling old lady was just so completely [...]

Tagged as: beans, cabbage, cheese, deep-fried, dessert, nicaraguan, plantains, rice, salad, steak, usc

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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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Chill Pill in My Neighborhood

August 30, 2011 blog meet-up

Last Wednesday was the day AT&T (after 5 hours of haggling and being put on the hold and transferred) had promised me that they would re-activate my internet. Last Wednesday was the day I went back home excited to have my internet service back. Wednesday was the day I waited, and waited…and waited. At 9 [...]

Tagged as: beans, beets, bread, chile, deep-fried, dessert, enchiladas, guatemalan, koreatown, lunch, plantains, pork, tortilla, tostada

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Nothing like Family

May 16, 2011 eating out

I’m home!!!!!! Not home as in the lemon tree home, or even my new apartment, but in some random cheap hotel near LAX Airport. But it’s home because I’m finally reunited with my family!! My parents arrived in the afternoon in a rented mini-van. I was wiping the floors of my now bare room when [...]

Tagged as: chicken, curry, deep-fried, egg, Japanese, omelet, pasta, pickles, rice, seafood, spaghetti

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Words to Argue, Noodles to Slurp

April 25, 2011 eating out

I am kind of overwhelmed (in a good way) by all your sincere responses to my last ED post. I always knew bingeing is a problem most people (not just in recovery) struggle with from time to time, but I didn’t realize how strongly it might resonate with someone just by sharing it out loud. [...]

Tagged as: chicken, chinese, deep-fried, dumplings, fried, Japanese, noodles, oil, pork, sesame seeds, spicy