Pa Pa Walk may be hard to find because it’s tucked behind an elevator shaft on a strip mall on Valley, but it’s worth it on a hot day. It’s a small restaurant serving Taiwanese diner dishes like rice with sausages, noodle soups, stinky tofu, and dumplings, but what I really was there for [...]
While we were in New York, the BF and I walked by a small window display full of old, vintage soda bottles which caught my eye. When we examined it further, a friend who was with us told us it was a vegan ice cream shop. Unfortunately, it was closed at the late hour we [...]
I’ve been eating too much hot qi food lately. I ate a handful of lychee, not to mention a bunch of spicy stuff, and mango. So naturally, I got a canker sore in my mouth from all that hot qi. That’s why I bought a can of grass jelly from the Chinese market this weekend. [...]
I made black bean pumpkin soup tonight after being inspired by the epicurious recipe here. I somewhat followed it, which means, I took the ingredients list as a suggestion and just added stuff in what I thought were the right quantities. I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of taste, but the [...]
I’m not really sure what the English name for this restaurant is, but it’s on the corner of Life Plaza. It initially was just a dessert place specializing in Chinese desserts like mango pudding and shaved ice, but now it’s on the hand-shaved (dao xiao) band-wagon.
The BF ordered the house special vegetarian noodle soup. [...]
