TAIWAN PORK RAGU ON RICE – LU ROU FAN
"YOU MISSED OUT
"YOU MISSED OUT
"SO WHAT DOES THE LETTER 'Q' TASTE LIKE?" I. Love. This. Stuff. Everybody, girls especially, who has or shares an Asian background, loves this stuff. This stuff is so popular it's practically in the freezer section in every respectable Asian grocery stores, big or small. This stuff is so unstoppable, that although originally meant to be eaten on a single Chinese holiday only, now is enjoyed all year round. People look for excuses to eat this stuff. Given that it's warm, soft and sweet, it's a comfort food for the mentally wounded. But then again, given that it's a circle which symbolizes "wholeness" and "content", it's a must-item in Chinese weddings, too. Boyfriend dumped you, you eat this stuff. Getting hitched, you eat this stuff. You see what I mean? This stuff is called tang-yuan (literally soup-circles), aka sticky rice balls. Why do Asians love sticky rice balls so much? To add to your confusion, it all comes down the mystery of one single alphabetical letter - "Q". Asians love stuffs that are "Q", and this, this is "very Q". I'm sorry, what the fuck am I talking about? I mean what does the letter "Q" taste like anyways! What does any letter taste like? But
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I set out to take the first post of 2014 easy
Every Who Down in Who-ville Liked Christmas goose a lot
Oh mah God
Let me cut to the chase with this one. Because along with what has officially come as the "holiday/party season", also came a bubbling frenzy of ideas that harasses my otherwise unambitious nature to just relax through it all. I mean really, really self-tormenting thoughts, such as the fixation on the idea of a Christmas goose (goose!
I almost couldn't wait to tell you all about this hysterically inconvenient ragu. I started curating its debut so many weeks ago, impatiently waited for the temperature to drop and the first damn leaf to fall, until everything