By Benjamin Guan, Alison Li, and Andrea Lin April 26th, 2020

*Written by Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu One sunny day, I had lunch with two South African-born Chinese (SABC) friends at a northern-style...

Hello to all my peers in ASIAN 258! I hope you are all safe and healthy during this pandemic. During this pandemic, I like most of you,...

Whenever I look for recipes online, I try to find at least two to compare and end up going with kind of an average between the two...

Like you, I wonder about the summer. I think about the first thing I will do when I can leave my house. I also imagine various futures....

As the parties awaited the verdict, temperatures soared outside. Not that this would have surprised anyone. It was late July in Taipei....

I’ve always been a fan of crystal skin dumplings. They are quite popular in Guangzhou and Hong Kong -- if you have eaten dim sum, you’re...

I wrote the original version of this blogpost about a year ago, right as the COVID-19 crisis sent us all into lockdown. At the time,...

The name of this blog might as well be the title of the class. If there's a time to be upfront, that would be now. The end of the term...

The Chinese are present in many ways in Buenos Aires (Argentina). But there’s a special type of restaurant that marries elements from the...

Full disclosure: I did *not* grow up making these. My mother was a southerner: born in Singapore, raised in Canton, schooled in Hong...

The question is a real one. It was something that the Japanese government actually considered only a few years ago. In 2006, the Japanese...

If you’re like me, you're probably not going out much these days. So let’s fantasize about the places we might travel if we were suddenly...

Today, my mom taught me to make jinsi bing (金丝饼) – Chinese fried spiral pancake. Remember that Miranda told us that bing (饼) has long...

You don’t need to see it, because you can guess the plot. Ramen Girl (2008) is a cross between Karate Kid (1984),Tampopo (1985), Lost in...

This is a no-frills recipe. You need just three ingredients: flour, salt, and water. Special equipment is also superfluous. A knife,...

Best to make & enjoy while listening to Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson. Today I'm sharing with all of you one of my favorite breakfast...

We continue our ruminations on the impact of Chinese migration on Asian eating. But instead of merely calling attention to this...

A virtual mochi food lab for my students.