The good thing about having a blog is that when I feel the need to rant, I just type away and pretend that Cookie of the Fortnight isn’t happening this week. It is happening, just not right now as I’m in Taiwan and so far I’ve only met one family with an oven in their [...]
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My mom and I have been constantly surprised and inspired by our market strolls daily. The array of leafy greens, fruits, and pre-cooked deli-like foods are exciting and we’d love to be able to try and eat them all. The other day while eating at my godmother’s house, I thought, I could really get used [...]
TAGS: Taiwan
Too tired to blog, here are some pictures with captions. I will catch up later – it’s actually quite hard to find time to type away without feeling like a social recluse or an obvious avoider of my parents. I’d never noticed how many different types of flowers there are on a flower truck Love [...]
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This is part 2 of the Pirate Cake saga, particularly, how it ended with a delicious chocolate icing. I got the chocolate icing recipe by chance from a foodie site forum (I think it might’ve been either Chocolate & Zucchini, Smitten Kitchen, or The Pioneer Woman, in case people want credit I really can’t remember [...]
TAGS: Alex • cake • chocolate icing • pirate cake
Due to increasing popularity for the Vancouver > Taipei > New Delhi route from China Airlines, they now hire South-East Asian flight attendants and try to incorporate Bollywood music and movies in flight. In the “introduction” flight announcement on my flight out of Vancouver, the main flight attendant announced, in English, that with the crew [...]
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