Category: Food and Health
All blog entries pertaining to good food, healthy food, exotic food, practical cooking, snacks, otherwise anything that makes your tongue dance and fills your belly so you can sleep at night.
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How to Cook Plantain with Butter, Sugar, and Bacon Bits!!!
Simple. I butter up a baking sheet. Slice up a plantain. Bake that sonbitch at about 350°F for about 30 minutes until it’s golden brown. Dust a plate lightly with granulated sugar. Flip those slices from the baking sheet onto the sugared plate. Sprinkle some bacon bits on top of that mess.
Et voila! You just fed yourself for the night, big boy!
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Happy Chinese New Year 2014!!!
I am crunk as I type. But here’s my small family’s celebration.
Chinese New Year 2014 
Chinese New Year 2014 
Chinese New Year 2014 Happy Chinese New Year, gang! Good fortune all around!
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Honey and Tea Drink
Here I am thinking I just discovered the most amazing beverage created by God just for me: honey and tea.
But pardon my ignorance, I do a Google Search, and people be conjuring up all sorts of other drinks like orange juice and honey? Wow!
So I saunter into the kitchen like a grizzly bear foraging for food (more…)
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The Truth About Sriracha
The Truth About Sriracha
By Chongchen SaeleeIf you’ve grown up in America in even the most semi of Asian culture, you might be familiar with Huy Fong Foods brand of sriracha, otherwise now synonymously known as “Sriracha” with a capital S in ‘murica. Much like how Americans only fell in love with Chinese wire-fu with Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, there seems to be a late to the train game going on. But mostly, this chili sauce is catching on because it has become known as the hipster ketchup. And ketchup has a stigma for being cheap and junk food (sugar, vinegar, and red dye, no tomatoes whatsoever). These modern hipsters are putting it on EVERYTHING. But real Asians were just using it in pho. (more…)
