food & things with Christy Wang
These Shanghainese baby wontons are made with a simple pork filling and served in an easy broth with soy sauce, sesame oil, and ground white pepper. Adding in whispy dried seaweed . One of my fatal flaws when making these is adding too much filling! …
I’m a day-one cheung fun stan but my childhood exposure to them was always the shrimp and/or pork-filled cheung fun you get at dim sum. A few years ago I had peanut-hoisin rice noodle rolls at a HK-style cafe and I was obsessed with the …
In elementary school, my friend’s mom would bring spam musubis to every potluck; they were the ooonnllyy thing I cared about. I remember being so bummed the one time she was away for work and didn’t bring them in lol. Nowadays, I know that I …
A random memory popped up a couple of months ago — I was having dinner with my grandparents and my grandpa had brought out a pork dish that was served in a pumpkin. My parents and aunt suggested it might be ‘fenzhenrou’ when I brought …
A friend introduced me to che bap a few years ago and it’s always reminded me of the corn “tea” I grew up drinking, which was just the residual water left over from boiling corn, and I am so for it! It kinda reminds me …
The first time I remember having esquites was at Tacombi, a Mexican restaurant I’d frequent in new york, particularly on first dates. Yes, solid tacos, cute + chill ambiance, good margs, all conducive to a first date! buuutt I also knew that if the dates …