Food
I think about food. A lot.
Not just because I love to eat: I also think that food is politics, history, culture, and the best lens through which I can learn about the world.
I've been lucky to have eaten extensively across the world. I've also worked on several cookbooks. Now, I write an occasional food newsletter, obsessively review tacos, and develop recipes that are at once traditional and outright absurd.
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What I Ate in Singapore
Sept 22, 2023 It was my first full day back in Singapore. Here's what I ate, and where. Excellent scallion pancakes and fried dumplings from 喬記面館 Mee hoon kuay from China Whampoa Homemade Noodles Excellent coffee at Kurasu. Today, they had a coffee bean from Yunnan. I had to try that since I’ve never tried Chinese…
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6am Airport Food
Noyah La Maison, Changi Airport T4 One of the best things about being back in my part of the world, is that breakfast foods now make sense. No more pancakes, syrup, waffles, badly made eggs for brunch. Definitely no donuts. No sugar in general for breakfast for me, except a little bit in my kopi. 6am at Changi Airport…
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I'm Going Home
Here are some food thoughts I'm excited about as I pack for my annual visit home. What's home? My passport says Singapore. But in practice, it's the entire region of South and Southeast Asia that I miss and think of as home. I've lived in, and eaten in, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Myanmar; and spent substantial amounts…
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Embracing mistakes
I have a problem: I tend to be a perfectionist. Sometimes, when something doesn't turn out well I get so annoyed that I don't touch it again forever. Or for a long time. (Recently, I learned that people with autism and ADHD like me have severe 'rejection sensitivity'). Being mindful of this, I'm trying to actively…
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One Night in the Mission
I used to be a creature of the night, but no longer. I used to be out all the time, but rarely now. Partly, it's that San Francisco is so chilly at night, but also that it's pretty dead at night compared to the much bigger cities I've lived in. I don't quite enjoy walking around, cold, in areas where there just sijmply…