I saw an Instagram account feature ‘Paris Baguette’ as an ‘AAPI owned SF business’ and I laughed and laughed and laughed (it’s owned by a giant Korean conglomerate)
The best nasi lemak are the ones that fit in your palm. If it's too big, it's just too much of a good thing. We have a Malay word for that - "muak". But this fist sized nasi lemak is just the right amount.
I wanted to tell the makcik selling it to up the price from RM1 to RM2, however. But I made sure to buy her kuih and lauk to make it better.
Okay the problem with trump being speaker is they probably won’t have the votes, given that Repubs won quite a few seats in democratic districts, and those people probably want to try to be re-elected. So wtf go ahead and try, another loss for trump. He will say it was rigged and we can have a good laugh. 😀
Being home means breakfast that makes sense to me. (I don’t need to hear about how you can’t imagine eating such a thing, I can’t imagine eating donuts, cereals and fruit for breakfast either! Team savory and spicy breakfast forever)
My all time favorite laksa store in Singapore is Wei Yi in Tanglin Halt. In the Bay Area, Noodle Station in Daly City does one that is very similar (better than the Singaporean and Malaysian Bay Area places doing laksa)
The changing face of hawker centres: reflecting our changing demographics.
At Whampoa Market, excellent scallion pancakes (S$1.80) and dumplings (S$5), so US$5 in all.
Next door, good pho. We didn’t have northern Chinese or Vietnamese food in hawker centres when I was a kid. There are even hawkers from Japan and Korea too; and also regional Japanese food (there’s an excellent Okinawa hawker stall somewhere on the island..)
Google is worse than a monopolist. They deliberately destroy technology because it’s too empowering for users. Not talking about dominating, destroying.
When I was growing up 8000 miles from the US, I thought that people here also ate 'chilli' like me (birds eye chillies!) so I was quite disappointed when I found out it was another type of chilli