Banananananana! Na! Na!
You know how sometimes there are just those mornings when all you want is a pancake? I had one of those mornings last week.  So I made pancakes. I just happened to have flour (ok, so that’s not surprising– I always have flour), eggs, sugar, etc. Actually what I did have that I don’t always have [...]

A request from the babybro
My brother was reading my food blog yesterday, and apparently he complained to my mother: “為什麼都是姊姊的照片? 為什麼都沒有我的呢?” Translation: Why are all the pictures of my sister?  Where are my pictures? Oh le sigh. Funny kid. Anyway, here is a picture of him enjoying a fry when we went to Five Guys last month when I went home for a [...]

The Great Battle: In-N-Out or Five Guys??
Ok, so you know it had to come down to this at some point, right?  I am originally from the East Coast, but now I’m living on the West Coast.  When I first moved out here and people found out how much I love to eat, the first thing I people asked was “Oh, have [...]

Happy (Belated) Birthday (to me)!
Yay birthdays.  I’m still young enough to not be scared of them but old enough to know that I better enjoy that feeling while it lasts, because it isn’t going to last much longer.   Actually, my philosophy about birthdays is that it isn’t so much about me as it is about my friends.  I see any [...]

Eggs. Plants. What? Purple!　(九層塔茄子）
I really didn’t like eggplant much as a kid.  I mean, come on!  A purple vegetable?  Gross!  That being said, I think a good part of my dislike of eggplant was the fact that I had only had poorly cooked, tough-skinned, American eggplant.  You know, the big, fat, bulbous, so-dark-the-purple’s-almost-black kind.  As I grew older, [...]