Sometimes when I'm real hungry, something will happen: maybe the word 'pizza ' will occur to me, or I'll get a su...

When I was a little girl a favorite treat for me was eating thousand year old eggs or 皮蛋.  At our family dinners I would wait impatient...

Published: 2011-09-25 What is summer without watermelons, right?  It's the perfect fruit, both humble and sublime.  Some of you are...

A beautiful to look at and easy to make Chinese dessert, gently scented with the flavor of almonds.  It rather reminds me of eleg...

Every once in a while I veer off the path of sanity and attempt the uncharted, the dangerous, the unsurmountable.  All in the nam...

Published: 2011-09-15 Caught up in the Hong Kong's simmering excitement in the leadup to the Mid Autumn Festival, or 中秋節, we did al...

Published: 2011-09-15 A very cute mooncake indeed.  Just in time for Mid Autumn Festival, or 中秋節. Did you guess?  It's not really a...

Published: 2011-09-10 Ever since the baby came to us, there was always a concern about what kinds of food to feed her.  When we got to ...

Century Egg and Tofu 皮蛋豆腐 is a classic Shanghainese dish that requires no cooking at all and is simple to make.  For us it is a k...

This recipe is a tribute to the wonderful wild organic rosemary that grows in my mother's garden in southern California.  A c...