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On my never-ending quest to find the Shanghainese restaurant, I ventured into Yu Garden, a newly opened Shanghainese Restaurant on the corner of Valley and Del Mar. Yu Garden is so new, it still has the new car smell. The walls are decorated with faux molding, the menus are still lacking the stickiness of well-worn [...]

I came across this recipe for sweet and spicy tempeh and passed it on to the BF. He liked it so much that he made it twice! I was always neutral about tempeh, but then I had this dish and now I love it! The funky armpit smell that fills the kitchen when [...]

When I picture a restaurant named Bon Mar Che Bistro, I picture a small cafe with cozy tables covered with white tablecloth where I can order a charcuterie plate, a glass of wine, and relax with a good book.  That’s absolutely *not* what Bon Marche Bistro is about.
Instead, it’s a small, family-owned restaurant tucked behind [...]

Potstickers and dumplings are some of my favorite things to eat. They’re more of a pain to make for a weekday dinner, but if you make a big batch of them, you can freeze them easily.
The filling ingredients:

baby bok choy (I used about 12-20)
3 squares of baked tofu
4 dried shiitake mushrooms that have been reconstituted [...]

To celebrate Chinese New Years week, the BF and I decided to make Chinese food dinners for the whole week.

Braised tofu sheets, bittermelon and scrambled eggs, and stir fried bok choy. I think this is the first time the BF attempted to make 3 dishes for one meal.

The next night, I made vegetarian pot-stickers. [...]

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
(3 of 5 stars)
This is one of the times I wish we implemented half-stars in our rating system. As a non-fiction book about food, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper is above average. It’s informative, has recipes, is easy to [...]

It had been a while since we had curry. It could be because vegan curry blocks are really hard to find. The blocks of Japanese curry that I used to use turned out to have some sort of meat or animal derived product in it, oops.  I thought that we had finally found some veggie-friendly [...]