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Thanksgiving 2010 Wrap-Up

Shao — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:10:17 +0000

Like previous Thanksgivings, I thought this year would be the year when I finally get to take it easy. Wake up around noon instead of in the morning and cook at a more leisurely rate. Have a drink or two between mashing up the potatoes and basting the turkey, and just like previous years I was wrong. Oh so terribly wrong. I did get to wake up around noon and that was because I failed to hear my alarm...

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Year of the Tiger

Shao — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:44:37 +0000

For me, Thanksgiving is my once a year cooking marathon. The one day when it feels like I’m cooking from sunrise to sundown. For my mom, the Lunar New Year is her epic cooking day. Grating 13lbs of turnips and turning them into 10 batches of turnip cake (lo bak go) is nothing more than a routine for the holiday. Braising pig’s feet with dried oysters, steaming two chickens, mixing up a big bowl of ginger...

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Family, Food, and Fortune

Shao — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Year of the Ox! It’s Chinese New Year time! The one time of the year when my mom is running on some sort of cooking adrenaline and is baking and cooking left and right. I would always see tons of round aluminum foil pans of Lo Bak Go (Chinese Radish Cake), Ma Tai Go (Chinese Water Chestnut Cake), Nian Go (Red Bean New Year Cake), and a whole bunch of Steam Mini Cakes (I swear I have the name at the tip of my tongue but can’t seem to remember what it’s called). They were all neatly wrapped; some even had red envelopes taped on top of the covers, and were ready to be passed out to friends and family.

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More Please! Mei Xin (Maxim) Snowy Mooncakes

Shao — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:13:00 +0000

Mooncake Festival or better known as the Mid-Autumn Festival might have been weeks ago, but surprisingly I'm still in a Mooncake mood. I don't usually like mooncakes. I find the lotus seed paste inside too sweet and I have tried several brands but never found one that I really enjoy. I'm a horrible mooncake eater and probably shouldn't be eating one at all, but I feel like I need too. I usually eat only half of the cake and bypass the whole lotus seed paste. I start with the crust and then move straight to the center yolk part. I know, I know. It's such a waste, but I do save the remnants for my dad who would always tell me I just shouldn't touch one at all. That was the past!

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