One sure sign that you’re in a Vietnamese bakery is the fragrant aroma of fresh pandan waffles, made to order in a flash–hot off the iron, and invariably just in time for you to enjoy as you wait...
“It’s not too sweet,” they say. For us, those four words are music to our ears when it comes to Asian desserts. We’re making gross generalizations here, but compared to the Western palate that loves the decadent and...
Happy New Years everyone! We hope you’ve all had a festive holiday–we sure did, hopping from one party to the next with seemingly nonstop eating. So we’ve been eager to get back into the kitchen and get cooking...
Recently we’ve been on a culinary quest to make a holiday pork roast with the most irresistible crispy, crackly, and bubbly skin possible–the type of crispy crackling that will have guests fighting over and craving for more. What immediately came...
In keeping with both our desire to stay relatively fit and healthy during the holiday indulgences, we present to you this creation of ours we delightfully call coco-bliss, a dessert with equal parts refreshment and decadence. Vietnamese desserts...
This holiday season we’ve been balancing feasts of gluttony with jaunts to the gym, putting our P90X and Insanity workout videos to good use. This zucchini crudo is light, refreshing, yet tasty and perfect to cleanse the palate and...
The thought planning, decorating, cooking, and hosting dinner parties can be intimidating to some, but for Kim, dinner parties couldn’t come often enough. But since we’ve were living and blogging from two different states and visiting each other on...
We’ve been guilty of it many times. Guilty of staring through the windows of Chinese BBQ’s with our mouths watering at the red, glistening, long pieces of barbecue pork hanging by the dozens–watching each droplet of pork fat...
The mere mention of blood can make some people squirm and uneasy, let alone the thought of eating it. But we thoroughly enjoy all forms of food made with blood and are not squeamish one bit. So to...
As summer wanes and the autumn leaves turn hues of bright red and orange, we instinctively turn to warm comforting foods like curry. Not a single spice, curries encompass a broad range of spices unique to the geographic...