my dad just asked me if im depressed.....
then he said..."if u're not depressed.....then u make me depressed"
*burp*
then he said..."if u're not depressed.....then u make me depressed"
*burp*
im done packing.
it's time to go.
bye bye.
im going on protected/lock.
hahahaha...this is hilarious.
it's time to go.
bye bye.
im going on protected/lock.
hahahaha...this is hilarious.
the pearl is not the name of a girl, it's my PHONE! and it's damn hard to use.
kimbo's favorite lines
"uUUUUUU betcha"
"oh that's TERRIBLE"
"THAT'S FABULOUS"
"GROSS"
todays menu. bee hoon! or mai fun or mee fun. BEEE HOOON! haha...it's fun to say. shrimp bee hoon w/'semi-homemade' chilli sauce, winter melon and pork bone soup. some chinese vege. if only i had some chitlins to throw in too.
adding the fried shallots in soup adds a whole other dimension.
made some shrimp stock with the leftover shrimp shells. i think we're gonna have some tom yum goong tomorrow.
r kellys lyrics are just ridiculous.
kimbo's favorite lines
"uUUUUUU betcha"
"oh that's TERRIBLE"
"THAT'S FABULOUS"
"GROSS"
todays menu. bee hoon! or mai fun or mee fun. BEEE HOOON! haha...it's fun to say. shrimp bee hoon w/'semi-homemade' chilli sauce, winter melon and pork bone soup. some chinese vege. if only i had some chitlins to throw in too.
adding the fried shallots in soup adds a whole other dimension.
made some shrimp stock with the leftover shrimp shells. i think we're gonna have some tom yum goong tomorrow.
r kellys lyrics are just ridiculous.
for the people who are impressed by my manic blogging lingual skills, trust me i am deeply flattered and quite happy for those who actually take the time to read every skitzo frenetic run-on i type. (it does open my multi facets up to those who don't know me that well). however, have no fear, i will be the first to say, i am overrated. narcissistic blogging by no means correlates to mastery of academia english nor does addiction to online media make me a saavy and worldly dork. fine. dork maybe, but anything other than jdubs saavy, maybe not.
i have this idea to
blog on the plane for the whole ride. but rather than writing a first
person narrative about the trivial hilarities of 'LIVING' (comedian
esque), i had a thought to try and write a third person story. i need
some ideas though. not sure as to what direction to head. as much as
i've felt that my writing has improved, without some guidelines and
pressures to mold the writing, my topics and form have plateaued at the ability
to better form thoughts and brainstorm not a legit published work. so here goes, back to the rich
text, grammatical proofread rant....(next post). hehee.
earing(s) -- i bought my square hoops at apkujung galleria in korea 2001. i was on a hunt for specific square earings and found a white gold pair there. perfect. took me a few days to get used to the change. stopped wearing two somewhere mid 2003 or earlier. but it just so happens that the square earing has become something that defines me.
"ah....so fun watching the inner struggle of a good boy trying to go bad" - g. kyu lee
most people succumb to mass media marketing. but am i falling for my own subliminal messages? could it be that all this fried food has induced or triggered a current bout of jungle fever? haha. well, i've never been shy about my feelings towards darker shades. (lets put it this way, i used to think the "class act" girl was soo hot, the dark chocolate one, the one that got with duncan pinderhues). so last night, at the hotel qt pool, 2 girls dressed up in scantily clad bikinis, and normally i would have been staring at the birthday girl but her boyfriend was present, so, dee, the black girl had my undivided attention even before "hello". it's been a while for us to be in such close proximity to other races and lets just say it was outright refreshing, even if they were married/divorced. it's always fun at aer and we always end up in ktown. (this time it was some place across the street from kunjip).
i started cooking with fish sauce. leftover rice always equates to fried rice. this time, i used some nuoc mam for shrimp fried rice. very very very tasty. i was thinking it would be good to use fried bacon bits, or fried bits of pork lard, like chitlins into the rice to give it some crunch (with fried shallots of course)....but since this was seafood dish and i didnt have pork, i crisped up the shrimp heads with the leftover oil from my ninja fried chicken (cuz i was wearing my hoodie). heheh.
had a lil trouble controlling oil temperature at first so the chicken turned out a lil darker than i would have liked.
hilarious. I LOVE SCARLETT!!!
i have this idea to
blog on the plane for the whole ride. but rather than writing a first
person narrative about the trivial hilarities of 'LIVING' (comedian
esque), i had a thought to try and write a third person story. i need
some ideas though. not sure as to what direction to head. as much as
i've felt that my writing has improved, without some guidelines and
pressures to mold the writing, my topics and form have plateaued at the ability
to better form thoughts and brainstorm not a legit published work. so here goes, back to the rich
text, grammatical proofread rant....(next post). hehee.
earing(s) -- i bought my square hoops at apkujung galleria in korea 2001. i was on a hunt for specific square earings and found a white gold pair there. perfect. took me a few days to get used to the change. stopped wearing two somewhere mid 2003 or earlier. but it just so happens that the square earing has become something that defines me.
"ah....so fun watching the inner struggle of a good boy trying to go bad" - g. kyu lee
most people succumb to mass media marketing. but am i falling for my own subliminal messages? could it be that all this fried food has induced or triggered a current bout of jungle fever? haha. well, i've never been shy about my feelings towards darker shades. (lets put it this way, i used to think the "class act" girl was soo hot, the dark chocolate one, the one that got with duncan pinderhues). so last night, at the hotel qt pool, 2 girls dressed up in scantily clad bikinis, and normally i would have been staring at the birthday girl but her boyfriend was present, so, dee, the black girl had my undivided attention even before "hello". it's been a while for us to be in such close proximity to other races and lets just say it was outright refreshing, even if they were married/divorced. it's always fun at aer and we always end up in ktown. (this time it was some place across the street from kunjip).
i started cooking with fish sauce. leftover rice always equates to fried rice. this time, i used some nuoc mam for shrimp fried rice. very very very tasty. i was thinking it would be good to use fried bacon bits, or fried bits of pork lard, like chitlins into the rice to give it some crunch (with fried shallots of course)....but since this was seafood dish and i didnt have pork, i crisped up the shrimp heads with the leftover oil from my ninja fried chicken (cuz i was wearing my hoodie). heheh.
had a lil trouble controlling oil temperature at first so the chicken turned out a lil darker than i would have liked.
hilarious. I LOVE SCARLETT!!!
my mom has this annoying habit of teaching me chinese at every turn....love hate love hate. so the lesson of the past year has been...
ai mei shi ren de tian xing!
moms poster in HK. thanks jawni. if you guys are in HK and want tickets. just email me.
"if u were a flower, ud be a rose and ur mom would be a carnation" -- debz
my moms been gone a week. and dad has been indulging in some of the non home cooked meals that he's been barred from eating in the maternal presence. apparently he's lost 4lbs due to a severe increase in veges, zero red meat and some redundant and poor cooked home meals here and there (his weight loss is of course a good thing cuz certain health issues are arising). mom can cook specific dishes really really well but overall, but she doesn't have a grasp for flavors of food and basically, she eats to live, so how's she gonna cook daily for a man who lives to eat? culinary wise, she's done quite well, driven by sheer "care and affection of her family" but realistcally, dads palate has been CRAVING a wishlist. so, we had one hour to eat on thursday, and we drove 30 miles for dimsum at 'dun cheng' (dont know the english name, the one across from flushing mall). i haven't had dim sum in soo long and everything looked so good. havent' seen the push carts in a long time (almost non existent in HK now), i gotso excited, the two of us had 28 dollars worth of dimsum, NO NOODLES. hahaha..*burp*. its so unfortunate the cantonese food has to be so terrible in taiwan.
so that was thursday. then came friday night, we needed DINNER. and its been a while since the auxillary chin nation got together for sh*ts, giggles and a feast. me, dad, benny (master chef) and wife lana, my uncle (eater extraordinaire) and kim (who wasn't there fri). and so, a FAVORITE restaurant of ours is "spicy & tasty" (highly touted in the nytimes). szechuan numbing chilli spice right up the alley of the indonesian chinese family craving the usual "set list of ordering". chilli braised beef, intestine and blood casserole, double cooked pork, fried bread, squash and that hollow vege, and soybean tilapia or fried sweet and sour fish. man...everything tasted delishiously oily!! i, like the anomaly i am, went no rice as usual, dad and uncle and benny did 2 bowls of white rice each, lana talked about wanting things that benny didnt agree to and we laughed at each other. so full.
my dad is the leader of the eating cavalry and his haitus due to mom being back was juxtaposed with satirical jokes of "torture and neglect"....nelson mandella's prison term. etc etc. but now, the bachelor is back. ha! ridiculously funny and semi-out of control. it's genetic. i love it. cheerio.
ai mei shi ren de tian xing!
moms poster in HK. thanks jawni. if you guys are in HK and want tickets. just email me.
"if u were a flower, ud be a rose and ur mom would be a carnation" -- debz
my moms been gone a week. and dad has been indulging in some of the non home cooked meals that he's been barred from eating in the maternal presence. apparently he's lost 4lbs due to a severe increase in veges, zero red meat and some redundant and poor cooked home meals here and there (his weight loss is of course a good thing cuz certain health issues are arising). mom can cook specific dishes really really well but overall, but she doesn't have a grasp for flavors of food and basically, she eats to live, so how's she gonna cook daily for a man who lives to eat? culinary wise, she's done quite well, driven by sheer "care and affection of her family" but realistcally, dads palate has been CRAVING a wishlist. so, we had one hour to eat on thursday, and we drove 30 miles for dimsum at 'dun cheng' (dont know the english name, the one across from flushing mall). i haven't had dim sum in soo long and everything looked so good. havent' seen the push carts in a long time (almost non existent in HK now), i gotso excited, the two of us had 28 dollars worth of dimsum, NO NOODLES. hahaha..*burp*. its so unfortunate the cantonese food has to be so terrible in taiwan.
so that was thursday. then came friday night, we needed DINNER. and its been a while since the auxillary chin nation got together for sh*ts, giggles and a feast. me, dad, benny (master chef) and wife lana, my uncle (eater extraordinaire) and kim (who wasn't there fri). and so, a FAVORITE restaurant of ours is "spicy & tasty" (highly touted in the nytimes). szechuan numbing chilli spice right up the alley of the indonesian chinese family craving the usual "set list of ordering". chilli braised beef, intestine and blood casserole, double cooked pork, fried bread, squash and that hollow vege, and soybean tilapia or fried sweet and sour fish. man...everything tasted delishiously oily!! i, like the anomaly i am, went no rice as usual, dad and uncle and benny did 2 bowls of white rice each, lana talked about wanting things that benny didnt agree to and we laughed at each other. so full.
my dad is the leader of the eating cavalry and his haitus due to mom being back was juxtaposed with satirical jokes of "torture and neglect"....nelson mandella's prison term. etc etc. but now, the bachelor is back. ha! ridiculously funny and semi-out of control. it's genetic. i love it. cheerio.
we've been ordering kalbi jim A LOT @ 4am the past 4 months. and its due time i give it a whirl. here's the recipe i found. anyone got any suggestions or pointers? tips? i have a lot of trouble cooking korean food like it comes out in the restaurants. i'll follow the recipe, but the end product always feels like there's something missing. i feel im close, but just cant figure out what im missing or doing wrong. maybe its been a while since a korean girl (who by poll, suck in bed -- read tpaks xanga). my BKC levels are low, blood kimchi levels. haha..that was for you disco. dorks.
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only a chin would eat breakfast wearing sunglasses and lupe fiasco/pharrell kick push remix playing in the background. gangsta son. so...internet may have turned most people into a WALKING ACRONYM, luckily for me, this hasn't happened, however blogging has meshed cyber and reality persona's into a "one-upping", crypitcally metaphoric FREAK. man...like a criminal seeing everything at angles of mischief, i see everything as a allegory. so another one of my self missions to improve delicacies of cooking is to master "the egg". (some chefs use cooking an omelette as an interview), lately i've been into the "poached egg" for health reasons. no oil, quicker cooking time than a hardboiled egg and basically just switchin things up. (add vinegar, it speeds up the egg white congeal process)i was creating my lil whirpool vortex, cracked the egg, and kind of got caught up watching the egg white swirling and congealing. this whole metaphor thing is getting outta control. find me a well and let me sit in it (wind up bird).
Recipe: Braised Short Ribs (Kalbi Jim)
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ime: 2 hours, plus overnight marinating
6 pounds short ribs
10 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 cup soy sauce
4 tablespoons sesame seed oil
2 tablespoons minced ginger
12 scallions, trimmed and chopped
4 tablespoons toasted and ground sesame seeds
1/2 cup sake
4 tablespoons mirin
2 tablespoons sugar
1 Asian pear or 2 crisp apples, peeled and chopped
1 or 2 fresh chilies (or to taste), preferably long and red, minced
2 large shallots, peeled and chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper, or more to taste
4 tablespoons olive or corn oil
1 large potato, peeled and chopped
2 medium onions, peeled and chopped
2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
2 eggs, optional
Salt
Cooked white rice, for serving.
1.
In a large bowl, combine the first 14 ingredients (through black
pepper), and refrigerate overnight, covered. About 2 hours before
serving, put half the oil in a broad, deep saucepan or casserole, and
turn the heat to high. Remove the short ribs from the marinade, add
them to the pan and brown them on all sides, 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Add marinade to the meat, along with 2 cups water. Bring to a boil;
lower heat and simmer, covered, an hour or longer, until meat is tender
but not falling off the bone.
3. Turn the heat back to high,
uncover and add potato, onion and carrots. Cook at a lively simmer
until the stew is thick and the vegetables are done, about 20 minutes
more.
4. Meanwhile, if you want a traditional egg garnish, put
the remaining oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet, and turn the heat to
medium-high. Beat the eggs with pepper and a pinch of salt, and add
them to the skillet. Turn the heat to medium, and let sit, undisturbed,
until the bottom of the omelet is lightly browned. Flip, and cook until
the omelet is firm. Turn it out onto a cutting board, and let it cool
slightly; then roll it up, and cut it into thin slices.
5. Taste the stew, and add a little salt if necessary. Garnish with omelet strips, and serve with white rice.
Yield: 6 servings.
only a chin would eat breakfast wearing sunglasses and lupe fiasco/pharrell kick push remix playing in the background. gangsta son. so...internet may have turned most people into a WALKING ACRONYM, luckily for me, this hasn't happened, however blogging has meshed cyber and reality persona's into a "one-upping", crypitcally metaphoric FREAK. man...like a criminal seeing everything at angles of mischief, i see everything as a allegory. so another one of my self missions to improve delicacies of cooking is to master "the egg". (some chefs use cooking an omelette as an interview), lately i've been into the "poached egg" for health reasons. no oil, quicker cooking time than a hardboiled egg and basically just switchin things up. (add vinegar, it speeds up the egg white congeal process)i was creating my lil whirpool vortex, cracked the egg, and kind of got caught up watching the egg white swirling and congealing. this whole metaphor thing is getting outta control. find me a well and let me sit in it (wind up bird).
"why do we celebrate mediocrity?" why do we find it necessary to compliment the things "u should do anyway". isn't it embarrassing? is this culture of 'reassurance' to blame for american ideals across the board? (ridicule the bad and merit the good, everything else in btwn leave alone - there's no need to gloat the borderline piss poor). declining gdp, fiscal policy, international affaris, educational decline, child discipline, global warming, environmental responsibility, automotive suckage, US athletes etc...i might be less critical of embarrassing shock media such as the day time talkshow exploits of the unstable household, but i find it quite belittling as an audience to be subjected to a constant kudos and affirmation of the mediocre. i'm not dumb, and i don't want u to be entertaining me with the dumb. at least not 90% of the time. jeezus. i do realize my complaints are specific to my current mood (and obviously the ratings show that the dumb shows sell), triggered by a food network guiness world record challenge for "flipping most pancakes in an hour". the man that won the competition and broke the world record gleefully boasted that "it was my 23 years of [panckae flipping] experience that really helped". im not bashing on this man, because he has turned his trivial simplistic hobby of pancakes and turned it into a successful catering business, but just the general feel of this statement incited a flurry of ridiculous statement reactions. people boasting about insignificant acts like they ruled the world, maybe had something to do with hearing too many rappers on the radio who have trouble speaking in two syllable words. groggy annoyance driving home, listening to non eloquent self righteous rappers whirlwinded me into my whole theory on american arrogance. posted many a time in my 3 year stint on xanga...an arrogant superpower on the decline. -- maybe i was hating on an oprah book club book earlier that got me annoyed too. her book club sucks. u have to see the family guy satire on the book club. my feelings exactly. looks like the big O is gaining weight again too! well, i turned on oprah to catch a glimpse of robin thickes wife, and instead i witnessed the superfluous applause female bio-genetic emotions.
anyways, im thinking of taking this food blogging to the next step. SLR camera. maybe that was the subconscious reason i broke 3 cameras the past 2 years. thanks to christine, i've being walked through into the art of photography. it seems that i can tweak the point and shoot cameras for better results, but we'll see. not to mention, im moving into the world of digital editing, now that 2 macs are in my house. does anyone use photoshop 3?? how is it? im trying to dL it now. does it make the mac intel duo crash?
OH HOT NESS.......hoag just got them....i want the yellow ones!!!
missing pictures....and missing memory....
i wasn't out for this night...but man...this picture is AWESOME.
this one is pretty funny too
does anyone have toadies - tyler?
anyways, im thinking of taking this food blogging to the next step. SLR camera. maybe that was the subconscious reason i broke 3 cameras the past 2 years. thanks to christine, i've being walked through into the art of photography. it seems that i can tweak the point and shoot cameras for better results, but we'll see. not to mention, im moving into the world of digital editing, now that 2 macs are in my house. does anyone use photoshop 3?? how is it? im trying to dL it now. does it make the mac intel duo crash?
Looking Perfect, One Pixel at a Time
OH HOT NESS.......hoag just got them....i want the yellow ones!!!
missing pictures....and missing memory....
i wasn't out for this night...but man...this picture is AWESOME.
this one is pretty funny too
does anyone have toadies - tyler?
yeu and nuoc mam - essentials for every viet family. i send my prayers love and fish sauce for hoans grandma.
i got an embarrassingly loser shoutout on debs page....so im retaliating by one-upping her fririce. ur everyday normal shrimp, pork combination fri rice is boring. but the lucky part about being chinese, is that as many dialects as there are, there are nuances of cuisine...so why not substitute your humdrum salt and pepper combination for the more robust flavors of the south east. nasi goreng time! i cheat. i dont really know how to get the flavor combinations correctly but the bamboe nasi goreng packets are pretty tasty. even my aunts, uncles and cousin uses this stuff so i figure its okay for me to 'semi-homemake' it. so....in goes, onion or shallots, chicken, garlic and scallion. (thing is im using basically the same things in the ingredient list of the packet.)....(i think using a bland protein is better because the nasi goreng paste is so strong, dont want red meat flavors to fight the spices) add the rice and fry up one super crispy egg on top. (soy sauce crust optional). and...the secret topping (fried shallots)! soo good.
use this as garnish...or just throw it in last minute to give it an
extra kick....try throwing this in ur oxtail soup...world of a
difference. i think this is the better brand....there's a few out
there to choose from....u'll see a color difference in the
shallots....the lighter full slices of shallots have more flavor.
we use these 2 brands....im sure the others are the same.
my dad reminded me to drizzle some sweet soy sauce over the egg....
i roasted some chicken. dad has very specific taste buds...didnt find the flavor combo to be that great...i dont even remember what i put in it....i had no clue how to marinate it....i think i used lemon and pinneaple and its juice....ginger soy and brown sugar and peppercorns.....maybe some chilli? but i can't taste it. i thought the chicken was cooked perfectly. really tender and juicy....but dad likes that fried crust....and i didn't remove the foil in time to let the skin crisp up. i dont think he liked the flavor combo. disaster pic.
imma head to the ernest sewn sample sale tomolo morning. 10-12. anyone want to join?
we've created out own bermuda triangle. u fall into any of those places and u're bound not to come out alive...atl, houston, and vegas.....and i quote...."i prefer koreans...." hahahaha....y'all can guess who said that.
HOW COOL ARE THESE.....(from alvin)
http://www.myairshoes.com/reebok/reebok-voltron-v-pack.html
http://seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=9840
i got an embarrassingly loser shoutout on debs page....so im retaliating by one-upping her fririce. ur everyday normal shrimp, pork combination fri rice is boring. but the lucky part about being chinese, is that as many dialects as there are, there are nuances of cuisine...so why not substitute your humdrum salt and pepper combination for the more robust flavors of the south east. nasi goreng time! i cheat. i dont really know how to get the flavor combinations correctly but the bamboe nasi goreng packets are pretty tasty. even my aunts, uncles and cousin uses this stuff so i figure its okay for me to 'semi-homemake' it. so....in goes, onion or shallots, chicken, garlic and scallion. (thing is im using basically the same things in the ingredient list of the packet.)....(i think using a bland protein is better because the nasi goreng paste is so strong, dont want red meat flavors to fight the spices) add the rice and fry up one super crispy egg on top. (soy sauce crust optional). and...the secret topping (fried shallots)! soo good.
use this as garnish...or just throw it in last minute to give it an
extra kick....try throwing this in ur oxtail soup...world of a
difference. i think this is the better brand....there's a few out
there to choose from....u'll see a color difference in the
shallots....the lighter full slices of shallots have more flavor.
we use these 2 brands....im sure the others are the same.
my dad reminded me to drizzle some sweet soy sauce over the egg....
i roasted some chicken. dad has very specific taste buds...didnt find the flavor combo to be that great...i dont even remember what i put in it....i had no clue how to marinate it....i think i used lemon and pinneaple and its juice....ginger soy and brown sugar and peppercorns.....maybe some chilli? but i can't taste it. i thought the chicken was cooked perfectly. really tender and juicy....but dad likes that fried crust....and i didn't remove the foil in time to let the skin crisp up. i dont think he liked the flavor combo. disaster pic.
imma head to the ernest sewn sample sale tomolo morning. 10-12. anyone want to join?
we've created out own bermuda triangle. u fall into any of those places and u're bound not to come out alive...atl, houston, and vegas.....and i quote...."i prefer koreans...." hahahaha....y'all can guess who said that.
HOW COOL ARE THESE.....(from alvin)
http://www.myairshoes.com/reebok/reebok-voltron-v-pack.html
http://seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=9840
