chinese taro cake recipe – how to make wu tao gou taro cake, or wu tao gou, is a savory steamed cake filled with starchy taro, salty lap cheong (chinese sausage) and chew dung gu (shiitake mushrooms). it’s really soft when it comes out of the steamer, so cutting it into slices and pan-frying it […]
Ginger Rose Ice Cream
in the middle of all this uncertainty, ice cream is a necessity. our grocery lists are long enough without ice cream (and somehow i feel like we need more items now than before?? my parents go to the grocery store every other day, i swear -_-), and this ginger rose ice cream is the sort […]
Vanilla Matcha Latte with Brown Sugar
vanilla matcha latte mood: a vanilla bean ice cream and slightly bitter matcha latte hybrid. this pandemic has me in limbo, in terms of time and mindset. a week and a half ago, i was going about my work and my life, and days seem to have melded and slowed down to the point where […]
Salted Fish Fried Rice (Haam Yu Chow Faan)
haam yu chow faan, or salted fish fried rice, is a cantonese-style fried rice made with haam yu, or preserved fish. it’s actually crispy, and it’s the kind of fried rice that is so flavorful on its own that you don’t need to eat it with anything else. i was supposed to to be basking […]
Strawberry Sandwich Cookies
it’s that time of the year when i make pink cookies. last year i did raspberry strawberry cookies, this year strawberry sandwich cookies. it’s hard for me to comprehend how i, as 1 person, can make meaningful impact on the communities and initiatives i care about. this is especially true in the current political climate, […]
3 Days in Boston (Boston Winter 2020)
what do you do when you find bogo flights to the east coast in the dead of winter, you like oysters, and you’ve been meaning to visit your boston-based friend? you book a trip for 3 days in boston!! it’s apparently nicknamed “the walkable city”, and we managed to do a good amount of walking, […]