• 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.…

  • The Infamous Mega-Carrot Cake

    As you may have noticed, I haven’t exactly written anything here for, um, a while. Which isn’t to say that I haven’t been cooking- oh no. No. I’ve been Little Miss Cooks-A-Lot this month as my parental units are in…

  • Semi-Lucid Rice Cooker Apple Cake

    So I am sick again. This time it’s with a bronchial bark that frightens the neighbours and a fever that has made the past few days rather interesting, perception-wise.  Mind you, sometimes when living in Shanghai it is difficult to…

  • HangZhou Rearranged Chocolate Apple Cake

    I actually left the flat this past weekend. In fact, I even left Shanghai. For the past two months, I’ve been like the love child of an eccentric hermit and a domestic goddess, holed up in our cozy flat, dusted…

  • Hóng Pútáojiǔ Chocolate Birthday Cake

    This one had been sitting around in my drafts folder for ages, neatly cut and pasted but never attempted.  It just seemed so incredibly decadent that I knew a) I had to make it and b) it had to be…

  • Disarmingly Practical Sino-Happy Chocolate Cake

    Next Tuesday, I’m turning 37 so I decided to make myself a cake a week in advance, for my Thursday breakfast.  37 is a weird age to be turning because it holds absolutely no significance. It’s not a milestone. It…