• 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…

  • 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…

  • Killing My Crock Pot Softly With Yeast Breads

      I’m not, I admit, one of those pretty food writers. I’m not talking about me and my bad hair and naked face and un-manicured nails, mind you- I’m talking about my food styling abilities, or lack thereof.   I’m…

  • The Lazy Laowai’s Guide to Toaster Oven Focaccia

    As you’ve probably noticed by now, I have a thing for unleavened bread, especially unleavened bread made in the wok using a highly unlikely Uyghur noodle dough recipe. I’ve turned that into chapatis, tortillas, pierogies, spaghetti, medieval dumplings and ravioli.…

  • Not Your Grandma’s Bazlama: Turkish Wok Bread!

    As you probably already know (or don’t care), I lived in Turkey for 6 years before moving to China. For the first 2 years before I moved to Istanbul, I lived in a small city called Kayseri, on the edge…

  • Woks and Bagels!

    Sometimes I overwhelm myself with impulsiveness. I’m prone to throwing myself into projects head first with great enthusiasm until I get part way in and realize that 1. I don’t have all the ingredients/parts/equipment needed for it; 2. that in…