For the past two years, my family has been throwing a gingerbread house-decorating contest. Last year, I created a Bavarian-themed house in shades of turquoise and Delft blue, and the year before that, I dreamed up a cloisonne-inspired number. This year, I certainly didn’t set out thinking to myself: hmm, I think it would be [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Holiday’
January 5, 2010
A Lakers-Themed Gingerbread House Decorated With $40 Worth of Candy from Little Tokyo
December 31, 2009
A Very Filipino Christmas: Terrible (But DELICIOUS) Food Photos from Noche Buena, Etc.
April 21, 2009
Czech, Please: Five Days Of Boiled Dumplings In Prague
The restaurants in Prague sure know how to lure the tourists in — offer “traditional” Czech food, and they’ll surely come. The only problem is that Czech food isn’t spectacular to begin with; the food is pretty much medieval (meaning, the food lacks any kind of sophistication and hasn’t evolved in the past 300 years). [...]
January 6, 2009
Christmas Eve Dinner at My Aunt’s House…ASIAN STYLEEEE
Shrimp balls, crab fried rice with egg, ahi poke, stir fried bok choy and shrimp, crab legs. I guess there was a lot of shrimp going on, but it was an Asian Christmas dinner, OK? We got the shrimp balls special order from Chinatown in downtown L.A. The ahi poke was from Marukai in Gardena, [...]
January 6, 2009
My Bavarian-Themed Gingerbread House — Well, It’s Actually Hungarian, But That’s Too Obscure
February 3, 2008
Newsflash: Guys Don’t Care About Superbowl-Themed Treats
The Superbowl is tomorrow and all I keep seeing on the food blogs are cute little cupcakes, cakes and cookies shaped into footballs and football fields and jerseys for housewives to sit around and make for their husbands to consume in approximately 1.2 seconds. And they won’t even care. You think guys give a shit [...]
December 30, 2007
Buchi Balls
OK, by this time, you’re probably wondering, what’s with the ball theme? The fact of the matter is, most good things come in the shape of a ball…chocolate truffles, mochi, mozzarella, but most importantly, buchi. Buchi is fried ball of sweet rice flour filled with red kidney bean paste (very popular in Japanese and Chinese [...]
