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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009So I co-hosted a seder this year and I was informed that I would be making the brisket. My reaction: “I’m Chinese. I cook small pieces of meat. I have no idea how to cook large pieces of meat.” Then I was like, well, I’ll just marinate it in soy sauce. And he told me […]
St. Paul Sandwiches (in St. Louis), Made with Egg Foo Young Patties
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009A reader, Josh West, sent me photos of a St. Paul sandwich, which is a local sandwich specialty in St. Louis American Chinese restaurants. It is made up of a egg foo young sandwich, lettuce, tomatoes etc. on two pieces of white bread + mayo. According to local legend, the St. Paul Sandwich was named […]
A Woman Calls 911 Over the Lack of Shrimp in Her Fried Rice
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009The Associated Press ran a story about a 911 call from a woman who complained about her fried rice at a local Chinese restaurant. (This came to me via @weirdnews on Twitter) I’m sure there are fair use issues, but I can’t help but quote it in full. A woman called 911 to report she […]
How is The Fortune Cookie Chronicles Related to Richard Price’s Lush Life?
Monday, April 6th, 2009So someone emailed me today to let me know that Richard Price’s Lush Life had been recommended to them because they had purchased The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. Here is the screen shot I read Lush Life in part because it is loosely related to the murder of Nicole DuFresne, which is a story I was […]
Random Cute Baby Picture of My Brother
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Another random baby picture as my family digitizes our photos. This is Kenny, the ‘K’ in JFK.
The Paperback is Out!
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009It has a new afterword + the quotes in the front are designed like a Chinese menu. Plus I changed the acknowledgments just a little bit. The orange is slightly different.
The Paperback is Out, Without Really Being “Out”
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009So my paperback is available even though the pub date is not technically until March 23. It’s available on Amazon. I’ve heard reports of sighting at Barnes and Noble and other local bookstores. Most startling still was my editor emailed me last week and told me it had hit the San Francisco Bay Area best […]
NYT: On Springfield’s Chinese Cashew Chicken
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009John T. Edge writes a detailed historical piece on Cashew chicken, Springfield, Missouri-style, which basically means it uses deep-fried breaded chicken chunks. It’s Colonel Sanders meets General Tso! (+ Cashews). Again it makes the point that David Leong (who is now 88), was a single innovator who came up with the dish some 50 years […]
Here is the Martha Stewart Segment!
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I love how everything is online these days. Here is the Martha Stewart turkey dumplings segment from last week.
Globe and Mail: A New Greatest Chinese Restaurant? Hakkasan outside Vancouver
Thursday, February 5th, 2009This Globe and Mail piece from a few months ago highlights Hakkasan in Vancouver (not to be confused with Alan Yau’s über-sexy, Michelin-starred Hakkasan restaurant in London, which I also went to). Richmond is also where I had chosen the greatest restaurant in the world (now shuttered) Zen Fine Chinese cuisine. The sister of Sam […]
I’m Up Before the Sunrise at the TED Conference
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009I’m at the TED conference in Long Beach, Calif. and because I have had to become an early riser on the East Coast to do Morning Buzz, I was up at like 5 a.m. this morning, Way before sunlight. A number of people had read The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, so I was touched. And some […]
The Chinese Restaurant Workers’ View of America: Through Area Codes. Chinatown Bus Ads
Monday, February 2nd, 2009These two are Chinatown bus advertisements for routes that go to the more obscure regions of the eastern United States. (Chinatown bus goes all over, not just Boston, NYC, Philly and Washington). Notice how they emphasize the area codes. That is because many Fujianese restaurant workers are not educated and thus don’t really read and […]
General Tso in a Bottle
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009I was in a kitchen today and saw a bottle of Iron Chef’s General Tso’s Sauce and Glaze. It was a bit too sweet, and not spicy enough. Nonetheless. You can get General Tso in a bottle!
Happy Lunar New Year!
Monday, January 26th, 2009Happy Year of the Ox (my parents’ birth year). For whatever reason, all the news outlets feel that they obligatory shot of cute Asian kids and dancing dragons. Often times Chinese holiday imagery can be boiled to cute kids, old people, dancing dragons and firecrackers.
LAT: Bringing Fortune Cookies into the 21st Century.
Monday, January 26th, 2009A Los Angeles Times columnist, Gregory Rodriguez, writes about Kenny Yee, who bought one of L.A.’s four Chinese fortune cookie factories. (Good luck, the margins are awful.) I wonder which four there are. There is Amay, Peking Noodle, now-defunct Hong Kong Noodle…which else. I’m a bit sad about this part of his piece. I hate […]
About Time I Got Out of That Cookie
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009This is the most hysterical fortune that someone at my talk at the Richmond Jewish Community Center (which has a water slide!). Those people over Wonton Food are getting quite frisky.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Looking for General Tso
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Bill Lohmann of the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote a fun cover article about my upcoming talk at the Richmond JCC. The JCC said they never get this type of coverage, so maybe they should invite food authors more often. usually it’s just a blurb. Billactually did the interview when I was in Miami on the way […]
Man Date in the Bromance Comedy, I Love You Man
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009This new film I Love You Man (Dreamworks out March 20), is basically one long series of man dates. Sensitive, Emo-centric Peter (Paul Rudd) who finds himself distraught on the eve of his proposal finds that he has no male friends to be his best man.
Good-bye 2008, Hello 2009!
Monday, January 5th, 2009We are back! Happy 2009. In many ways 2008 was a good year (book, Olympics, loml). But it was, due to implosion of economy, also a sad year. Let’s see what happens.
LAT: They do eat cat in China…at least in Guangzhou
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Barbara Demick of The Los Angeles Times explores the selling of cats for food in China. Different parts of China will eat dog, but really only here do they eat cat. The Cantonese, it is said, will eat anything that walks, crawls, hops or flies.
NYT Oped: “Pork Fried Abuse” by Steven A. Shaw
Monday, December 22nd, 2008I always meant to link to this opinion piece on delivery workers from back in October by Steven A. Shaw because it has one of the best headlines. Steven, Momofuku’s David Chang and I are supposed to be on a panel together on Jan. 11.
Happy Thanksgiving! General Tso’s Turkey.
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Here is a receipe for General Tso’s Turkey. Better than deep-frying it.
A nominee for the 2008 Borders Original Voices Award…
Monday, November 24th, 2008This was unexpected: ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Borders today announced the nominees for the 2008 Original Voices Awards. Now in its 13th year, the Original Voices Awards recognize fresh, compelling and ambitious works from the new and emerging talents of 2008 in fiction, non-fiction, young adult/independent reader and children’s […]
Baby meets Mexican Fortune Cookies, Dichos!
Monday, November 24th, 2008My college roommate, Amy, was served the Mexican fortune cookies called dichos, that I’ve written about before. She lives in Phoenix and was served them in Bisbee, just 5 miles from where they are made. Yes, it seems that Bisbee is in the middle of nowhere. And their supercute son, Alex, loved them too. Or […]
We’re the Answer to this Week’s Sunday Magazine Puzzle
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008So this week, I’m part of the solution to the Sunday Magazine puzzle (not the crossword, but the second one). It’s called an acrostic (otherwise known as an anacrostic) by famed puzzlers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon. Which is very flattering. As it explains. It’s some related somewhat to crossword puzzles, except it uses an […]
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