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Archive for January 2007

nonMaterial Girl

I’m tired of having so much junk and not knowing what to do with it. From now on, other than the essentials — food, soap, shampoo, etc., I’m not going to buy anything else. I recently bought some new shoes (red Converse shoes* if you must know), a belt, and a nano and I [...]

Pan’s Labyrinth

If you haven’t watched Pan’s Labyrinth yet, go watch it! I enjoyed it despite it not being what I thought it was. A few weeks ago, I thought I heard a radio advertisement for it, saying it was full of horror and something you won’t forget, followed by some quote from Stephen King, [...]

Ramen + ddukbokki = Rabokki

I’ve been planning to make some sort of Korean dduk dish for a week or two, but it wasn’t until I saw the rabokki post on MyKoreanKitchen that I finally did it.

First I fried up some onions in my brand new wok. I’ve wanted a round bottomed wok for a while, but could never [...]

Tea is the Princess of all Plants

I’m not one to get all frou-frou about tea, unlike some people, but The Guardian has a really good article about tea. It’s a long article that covers the history of tea and tea culture in China versus the tea in Britain.
I think being Asian and growing up in a tea drinking family, I [...]

Some People Are Stupid

Last week, the BF and I attended a knife skills class. No, we didn’t learn how to kill a man with one single slice to the throat. It wasn’t those knife skills. It was a kitchen knife skills class. As in: how to french chop onions, julienne carrots, and slice peppers. The class itself [...]

I heart Soymilk

I love soymilk, so I was excited to hear that my uncle made his own soymilk with a soymilk machine. I thought it was going to be some huge machine, but it’s only a little bigger than a coffee percolator. I bought myself one over the weekend along with some soybeans (did you [...]