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  • Uzbek Non

    Loaf in the Time of Cholera: Uzbek Non

    The other day, I got an email from my web host telling me that I was about to auto-pay for another two years. I pay a shocking amount of money to keep my various dormant blogs alive, so I probably…

  • Itsy Bitsy Adorable Brownies for Taipeiren (and Me) from KP Kitchen

    Chúc mừng năm mới, y’all! Today is the blissfully silent, empty first day of Tet and Saigon has emptied out and shut down almost completely, with the ever-banging construction sites falling silent and the manic roads looking pleasingly post-Apocalyptic. Pollution…

  • You Need More Chocolate Zucchini Bread in Your Life (and Tummy)

    This post has been open in my tabs for nearly half a year. Seriously. It’s that bad. This little sleepy southern corner of Saigon is the new land of the lotus eaters, with watermelon juice and pho replacing the druggy lôtos.…

  • Wok With Me Baby is Back…in Hanoi!

    Guys, it’s been a while. A rather long while.   However, ever the optimist, I kept on paying my annual website hosting fees and renewed my domain name for nearly two years after I posted my last post here. Since…

  • Making Lovely Lazy Bread for the Zombie Apocalypse

    Y’all, I’ve been quiet here. Eerily quiet. And you’re probably thinking, where has she been and why has she been such a lazy broad in that puny Chinese kitchen of hers? Well. To begin with, a few things have changed…

  • Pumpkin Spice Toaster Oven Scones and Wok Parathas

      Given that it’s already, oh, mid April and the skies are light and fluffy and sometimes blue, and temperatures have already soared into the high 20s and it’s definitely shirtsleeve weather, I fear that the title of this one…

  • Eating My Way Through Winter: Coconut Spice Bread

      This is going to be a new series, if I can get my act together.   At the moment my act is very obviously not together, but more about that later. I’ve decided that the best way to deal…