Category: Food

Mangosteen

2/9/2017

My first taste of mangosteen was not my choice. We were walking along a street in Shanghai and passed a vendor with two big baskets of these little plum-sized fruits. He had opened one and was offering passers-by tiny sections on a toothpick. We stopped and asked what they were, and he stuck a piece in my mouth! Unasked! Cheeky! If it had been durian I would have spit it out and slapped him, but lucky for him it was delicious--sweet and slimy like a banana, but in tiny sections like citrus fruit.

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Cheap Eats in Hong Kong

12/12/2016

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I usually don’t talk about money much, because at this point in life I think that if you can’t afford to travel, you shouldn’t travel.

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A Vegetable

12/5/2016

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Not “a vegetable” but the “A” vegetable. There is not B vegetable or C vegetable, but there is the A vegetable. It looks like romaine lettuce without the bony white stalk, and it’s mild enough to eat raw in salads. As pictured here, it also stir fries up beautifully. I took this picture in Din Tai Fung in Taipei, and then I ate everything in sight.

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"Mouse Guard"

11/28/2016

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I bought this cute grenade-sized vegetable because it was beautiful, and because it fit so nicely in my hand.

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Real Chinese Food

10/24/2016

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When I say Chinese food, I mean it.

I don’t mean that stuff you get in the rest of the world like beef-and-broccoli or fortune cookies or General Tso’s chicken. No Panda Express. No Asian Super Buffet. We will heretofore refer to that stuff as “Chinese food.” I mean Chinese food that you buy in China that Chinese people would recognize and eat. Chinese food. No quotation marks.

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Roselle

9/26/2016

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Hong Kong has a kind of market they call a “wet market.” It’s a street market with stalls of fresh fruits and vegetables, and sometimes meat and fish. They are usually set up in pedestrian side streets in busy areas, but this one was on the covered pedestrian overpass linking the ferry piers to the IFC mall. There was just one stall, set up in a circle in the middle of the overpass, and they sold only vegetables.

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SFMOMA Cafe: Restaurant Review

8/12/2016

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I took Kid 3 to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last week. We checked out the cafe.

I learned something that day: take it easy, and go slow. Here's why.

When Sam and I were first married, we had no money for vacations. He hadn’t been raised having vacations (Hong Kong is one city--no matter how far away you go, you might as well go home to sleep) so he always felt like we had to see as much as possible every trip. We usually came home exhausted and broke.

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Carlsbad Caverns Lunchroom: Finding Joy in the Mundane

7/25/2016

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During our Big Southwest Road Trip, I decided to show Kid 3 Carlsbad Caverns. I was there as a child, with my dad, so even though I knew it was an awe-inspiring, majestic, magnificent place, I had already seen it. It wouldn’t be the thrill it had once been. Therefore, I decided to let Kid 3 roam around and focus my energies on something I had not experienced before: the lunchroom.

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Regional Specialties: Only Partly about the Food

7/7/2016

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I have often been mystified by different areas’ regional specialties. Cider and donuts in Michigan, while tasty, seems like cider and donuts everywhere. Blue Bells ice cream tastes like grocery store ice cream to me, even though it’s Texas’ pride and joy. In and Out hamburgers are pretty good, but not better than other California fast food burgers. Why all the hype?

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Restaurant Review: Michelin-Star Hong Kong Dim Sum

4/28/2016

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This is a Guest Ghost Post. It’s a guest post because the experience was not mine, it was my husband’s. But he doesn’t write, so I ghost-wrote it for him. I don’t think he writes at all. In fact, the only things he reads are Harry Potter and the Bible. One of the many reasons we get along!

On his last trip to Hong Kong, his hometown, he tried a Michelin star restaurant, a dim sum place called Tim Ho Wan. He promises to take me when we next go to Hong Kong. I’ve never eaten in a Michelin-anything restaurant!

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