Archive for Cooking & Food

Hand-pulled noodles. Yay!

If there’s anything I’ve always found frustrating when it came to looking for good Chinese food places, and I’m not talking about those Chinese restaurants here in Makati who keep on adapting “pinoy-nizing” their food. When I go to a Chinese (Japanese, Indian, Thai, whatever) restaurant to sample Chinese fare, and not something that has been altered and bastardized to taste -nothing- like what it is supposed to taste like.

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Bento~

I did it! After god knows how long I’ve had these bento items in my cabinet and a few weeks of practice, I finally did it. :D I made a bento that actually looks like a bento. I’m not exactly what you’d call a prolific cook–given someone else does do the cooking here (which I seldom butt in because conflict usually arises)–and my initial attempts at bento making always ending up looking boring.

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Soup for Rainy Weather

It’s been a wet and cold day today. I don’t think I remember seeing the sun much today. The skies are cloudy, it’s raining cats and dogs, and cold. At least cold for this tropical girl’s standards.

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