vietnamese
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vietnamese watercress salad
Another of my favorite vietnamese dishes. Instruction below courtesy of my sister-in-law, with a slight modification. I had to go shopping for olive oil, vinegar, and filet mignon for the first time in life too.. only because previously they have always been handled by little sister who either had the ingredients or used the former… Continue reading
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canh cà chua đậu hũ hẹ
A very satisfactory dinner! 🙂 This is one of many very basic vietnamese clear soups (canh) and is typically a staple in daily vietnamese meal. Yet I haven’t made it probably in more than 10 years for various reasons, but the primary being the inability to find chives. May be backing up a little bit,… Continue reading
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chúc mừng năm mới!
Haaapppy new year everyone!! a similar* box arrived at my new empty apartment to bless the sunny place and new year, things are looking up! That pink “sausage”-like thingy** at the top is deadly! I attempted swallowing one while walking to the office.. ended up with mad uncontrollable runny nose (those Thai chili peppers KILLS :D,… Continue reading
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Cung Chúc Tân Xuân
haaaaaaaapppy new year everyone!! just got this in the mail, i soooo excited. it came out of sister-in-law kitchen in san diego just last saturday night and made way here today, cannnn’t wait to unwrap and eat tomorrow. ideally i’d love to celebrate with my family.. but great memory will do. So, what do we… Continue reading
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more random
music that was subconsciously singing in ears while i fought with nose for 3 hrs last night in semi-conscious state… [audio https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49847735/phamduy_baihatnghinthu_thaithanh.mp3] can’t say i fully understand the lyric, not that i’d put great emphasis on it.. but the music and her voice are quite soothing, brought back childhood memories 🙂 this should hopefully mark my… Continue reading
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Chúc Mừng Năm Mới
happy new year everyone! growing up in Vietnam, some of the best memories I have were during new year: no cut in electricity, continuous tv from night of 30th to throughout the 1st, food, firecrackers, visitors, red envelopes, no schools, you name it, two full weeks of happiness. Since we arrived in the US, new… Continue reading
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a tango to start the gorgeous evening
and a rainbow from phone camera to accompany __________ to continue with low-key evening, onto another duet Mưa Sài Gòn, Mưa Hà Nội (Sàigòn rain, Hànội rain, not sure why Ái Vân–first singer–looks so uncomfortable, possibly because she’s from Hà Nội. i should get cd though). Relatedly a FANTASTIC blog post about the difference between… Continue reading
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sticky tune
be warned, the content (and my fragmented line of thought) is a little disturbing… got this strange tune since yesterday that left me head scratching searching for the source. it has to be from something very recent, but which opera??? “tà tá , tá ta ta tà tá” (if you know a tiny bit of… Continue reading
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happy thanksgiving
if you celebrate such a thing :-). otherwise, hope you have a very pleasant rest of Thursday and weekend coming up. i wasn’t quite prepared for it except suddenly EVERYONE was traveling and now the town is COMPLETELY deserted! being asian, i think turkey isn’t quite my thing either, so we’re gathering for some vietnamese… Continue reading
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mozart for the (editing) night
got my stack of cd, here’s music to start, Non più di fiori vaghe catene discenda Imene ad intrecciar. Stretta fra barbare aspre ritorte veggo la morte ver me avanza. Infelice, qual orrore! Ah! di me che si dirà? Chi vedesse il mio dolore, pur avria di me Pietà! To weave pretty chains of flowers… Continue reading
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