The Wandering Eater

Recently I’ve been invited to a Greek benefit dinner at Molyvos, whose meal frames around the Greek Orthodox tradition of Lent. Knowing what Lent is, I am a skeptic. I’m an omnivore who loves her meat and dairy. Frankly, I don’t think I can go a day without any dairy since I need a splash [...]

As some of you might notice a few days ago, I tweaked my regular site a bit (not the smartphone compatible one). Barely but it’s an improvement.
1. The obvious one is the color scheme; a dark gray to emphasize and/or frame my photos better.
2. I got rid of the excess search bar that [...]

Around the beginning of November, my mom told me one morning that she wanted me to bake desserts for Thanksgiving. This wasn’t news to me since I’ve been baking desserts for my family over a decade. She requested a cheesecake (again, nothing new) and she wanted to indulge herself with a key lime pie. I [...]

Hello readers! I’m back in NYC over a week ago. I would have written a short post indicating this fact but, uh, I was dying of jet lag. A 12-hour difference and boarding on a 16-hour flight (with insomnia effecting me) doesn’t help my sense of time when I got back home.
Anyhoo, during my [...]

The time is finally arriving…
I’m going to Hong Kong and visit parts of southeast China this Tuesday, April 28th for the next two weeks. My bags are packed. My passport and visa is in my Alma bag that I’m taking with me (with my heavy 5D Mark II camera and lenses that weighs at [...]

As my title says, I’m going on a vacation! Not now, but I will be in late April to early May to Hong Kong and the southern part of China! WOOT! I’m finally leaving this continent. It’s been over half my life since I’ve been there. Reasons why I’m flying my butt half way across [...]

Sablé cookies
The weekend of my mom’s surgery (that’s two weeks ago), I baked her coconut-lemon sablé cookies. Why? She loves any and almost every coconut dessert or confection and I think cookies are a cinch to bake. I just chose sablés because she likes the crumbly, sandy texture of this rich cookie except she [...]

[Here's my long overdue post on my birthday dinner at Kuma Inn that's taken place on November 7th.]

Kuma Inn’s Entrance and Interior
After having [cref my-birthday-celebration-part-1-cakes-drinks-and-fried-hot-dogs a cocktail at PDT], we (as in Helen, Giulia, Seungmi, and I) all walked down south to the Lower East Side for Asian tapas at Kuma Inn. Since it’s [...]

I know I’m supposed to post food-related reviews and a recipe but the past week sucked for me. I got sick a little over a week ago. Methinks I got the flu or a really bad case of the cold that I can’t breathe through my nose and I’m coughing like a smoker (I don’t [...]

She blew out the candle!
Today’s technically my mom’s birthday. (I’m not going to divulge her age.) We celebrated a bit more than week earlier. “Why?” you ask. Well, her excuse was the fact that last weekend was the Mid-Autumn Festival and we can nosh on moon cakes (I love the lotus seed filled ones [...]