Like a lot of folks, I'm sure, B2 and I began as a fling. We were summer associates (or, baby interns) at our future Manhattan law firms, about to head back to our last year of law school; I was about to spend half of it in Hong Kong, and he was staying in Boston, and we had no idea where we were headed as a couple (and, wait, were we a ...
chinese
lotus paste and red bean mooncakes
For as long as I can remember, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been one of my favorite holidays. It means it’s time for the best dessert known to me–mooncakes. I am obsessed with mooncakes. Dense and rich, with intensely sweet, velvety-smooth fillings and a vermilion salted yolk in the center, they’re so good that I used to wait all year for ...
steamed buns, three ways
bbq pork pineapple buns, and happy news
A few weeks ago, I posted some teeny pies with a dollop of vague, cryptic ...