Myanmar, or Burma, as many people still call this pie slice-shaped country by the Indian Ocean (the CIA Fact Book explains the name change by the military junta in 1989,) has been in the global public eye of late. We've read the headlines, we've seen the images:...
Aunty Pearlie is not related to me by blood; she is, in fact, my friend Ivy's mother. In Asian culture, we call our friends' parents "aunty" and "uncle" as a form of respect. This was a concept my husband, let's call him hungry_ hobbit (yes, he...
This is me. This is the hole I made in the bottom of my mom's steamer pot. And I'm looking at you right through it. You'd think it would be pretty hard to bore a hole through metal. Think again. When it comes to me in the kitchen, anything is possible. I was...
Yay! I've done it, I've started a blog! Thanks to my cook book deal with Sasquatch Books titled--what else?--The Asian Grandmother's Cookbook, I've finally gotten off my duff and done it. Who would have thought that securing my first book deal would seem like a fairy tale? Honestly, I truly felt like...
