In general, I do not do food related posts. Mostly because I would rather eat the food than talk about it. Also, I lack the foodie vocabulary and resort to derivatives such as “OMGYUM!” to describe food. How a post can only consist of NOMS and DELISH, I don’t know. Hence, other than the occasional Taiwan food posts, I don’t do recipes, restaurant reviews, etc. Also, I am usually too busy eating and don’t remember to take a picture until the majority of the meal is in my belly. Sorrynotsorry. Regular readers may also be under the impression that I don’t cook or hate to cook. I’m actually a pretty good cook – but not the kind you write home about. And certainly not the kind to follow recipes. I am the open-the-fridge-crap-what-do-we-have-that-can-turn-into-food type of cook. Which is good in the impulsive, not restricted to recipe way, but really bad…
Today’s post focuses on Ma LiPing (马立平), a person as well as a type of Chinese language curriculum she created for the Chinese American children of Chinese immigrants…
Today is my father’s birthday. (Well, I suppose technically it was yesterday.) Honestly, I thought it would hit me more – the grief, I mean. I’m not sure…
A few weekends ago, my friend and I went to go see Mad Max: Fury Road and my brain exploded from the sheer spectacle, non-stop thrill, and unspoken weight…
It’s funny how you can hear about a person through mutual friends for years but never actually meet them until later. I had heard about Andrea Chen and her…
Content Warnings: mentions of rape, sexual assault, and incest. I remember we were in our church’s bathroom, talking about our week. My friend casually mentioned how she had…
So, at what point do you stop asking your mom to stop buying you clothes? I sound really ungrateful, but ever since Cookie Monster was born (about 5-6 years…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, due to many readers asking for Cantonese specific Facebook groups, I did some research into the topic. Here are my tl;dr findings:…
Now I know it may seem that I read a ton of books (and I do). But what I don’t often mention is that in addition to the…
