Supersize My Croissant

I’ve decided to start another Supersize Me experiment in the lab, this time with a croissant from Safeway. Before you condemn me for wasting food for the sake of my scientific endeavors, let me just say that this poor croissant was left over from a meeting on Monday, then sat in an open box in [...]

Dense Matter: Bagels from the (one and only) GC Bakery

I was recently told by a friend at work that the only Jewish bakery in Richmond is Garden City Bakery. (He is Jewish, and lives in Richmond, so I believe him. If you know better, you can make me believe otherwise.) Now, I have also eaten a lot of their awesome apple strudels in the [...]

雞蛋仔 (Mini-egg)

雞蛋仔 (Gai Daan Jai,  ”Mini-egg”)
Ah, 雞蛋仔 (Gai daan jai ), one of my all time favorite Hong Kong street foods and childhood snack. Gai daan jai originated in the 1950s, as a way for small grocers to make use of broken eggs they didn’t want to waste. Apparently, back then many were made with duck eggs, [...]

Steamed Tilapia on the Fish Plate

One of my favorite fish dishes- Steamed tilapia, Chinese-style: Buy fresh tilapia. Put fish on plate. Drizzle soy sauce, vegetable oil. Steam 15-20 minutes. Throw in generous amounts of scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro. (There was umeboshi paste in this one but that was an experiment and optional. Tasted great though.) Moist, soft, delicious fish. Now how [...]

Moofia – Dairy Toys

Hmm, how did we get here, let’s see. I was Googling images of “mozzarella” one day, and came across the Mozzarella vinyl toy by tokidoki. Kawaii! On the website I also discovered the rest of Mozzarella’s Moofia that come in cute little milk cartons. I had wanted to buy Mozzarella but it also costs 30 bucks [...]

Wheat Thins My Way

Although my first attempt at crackers yielded quite perfectly edible ones, I was of course not satisfied with my results (as usual). I thought my last batch of Spelt crackers were crunchy, but a tad on the hard side. Seeing that the Spelt crackers consisted only flour, water and salt, I decided to improve on this [...]

Whimsy Baked Tofu Jettison

There is almost always some tofu in the (Chinese) fridge, but last week there was a surplus of supermarket proportions. Packages of soft, medium, firm tofu, silken, organic, reduced fat tofu, fresh, in a box, as a tube tofu. (All except the pre-marinated, ready-to-eat kinds – I don’t buy those. Those are for the tofu-clueless. And I’m Asian, dammit.) [...]

Mario Galaxy Wii Omelet

This weekend was a giant double-stacked burger where:
Buns = breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Patties = playing Super Mario Galaxy
Condiments = various snacks in between
I did, however, make myself a nice spinach and mushroom egg white omelet, ie. lots of protein and Popeye goodness to power the game playing. I’m dubbing it my Mario Galaxy Wii Omelet. Tumeric is my current [...]

The Naam

Went to The Naam for brunch. Actually I had wanted their lunch menu but because it was the weekend, noon was still too early for that. Too bad, their breakfast menu didn’t have what I was craving for (a big salad). Oh well.

There is a reason why The Naam is known as the best vegetarian restaurant in [...]

Supersize Me Pineapple Bun: 2 month mark

If you have been following my pineapple bun experiment, you will know that this pineapple bun I have kept at work since my birthday turns 2 months old tomorrow! (Yes, this post is a day early as I won’t at work tomorrow to celebrate this occasion.)
So here it is, it doens’t look a day over [...]

Found! Pineapple bun 菠蘿包 nutrition and ingredients

Never in my pineapple bun-loving life have I ever eaten a 菠蘿包 (pineapple bun) that came with nutritional information or a list of ingredients. I have always been curious though. Of course, Chinese bakeries are not known for their attention to nutrition, and if you are eating a pineapple bun, you know you are definitely [...]

The Long Awaited…(I can hardly contain my excitement!)

Guess what I got today! 

If you own a Wii, you would have been waiting for Mario Galaxy for, oh, since the day you got your Wii. Or before. It is simply the Wii game of all time, even before it came out. So, if there is a decrease in the frequency of my food blogging in [...]

Spelt Crackers (Whole Grain! All Natural!)

I used to be addicted to Wheat Thins. I snacked on them pretty much morning day and night. That was back when I was more naive and took “0g Trans Fat” literally as no trans fat, and actually believed they were a healthy snack. When I saw “partially hydrogenated vegetable oil” on the ingredients list, I stopped eating [...]

Siegel’s Bagels

 
I am starting to develop a liking for bagels. Armed with my amateur bagel-palate, I am now determined to find some good bagels in this city. As such, I am on a mission to find some “real” ones from bagels shops like Solly’s, and also some fakes from places like Tim Horton’s. (Though I think the [...]

La Baguette et L’Echalotte Bakery, Granville Island

Saturday was one of those rare, beautiful Vancouver fall days that I so love: sunny, blue skies, crisp but not windy or cold. Yellow and orange foliage. Quite the calm before the storm, which came hard last night and knocked down trees and power every where. Anyway, such wonderful weather called for a little trip down to Granville Island, where [...]