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Tom Ka Soup with Crinkly Noodles

Ryan cooked up some delicious soup with red curry paste the other night. We couldn’t find any egg noodles in Whole Foods, so as requested by Ryan, I got “crinkly noodles.” This was after a little spat on, “Why can’t I just get rice noodles? Or thicker bean noodles? WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE [...]

Last week’s dinner – South East Asian Cold Udon Noodles and Crimini and Port Risotto

Last week was a pretty busy week without much cooking. We just wrapped things up with our usual cold Udon noodles in a Southeast Asian garlic lime sauce, with a pinch of dashi. I just topped that with shiitake mushrooms and boiled vegetables (sansai) blanched in thick dashi, soy sauce and mirin. All in all, [...]

Road Trip Food

Overall, I think the thing that I enjoyed the most is the food they made for us in Pursat. There were also these egg noodles that they got from a restaurant, which was delicious. Mmm! The duck eggs that they fried for our last day in Pursat, were also delicious. Unlike the eggs here, the [...]

Chinatown Dinner

Last week, we went to the Excellent Dumpling House for dinner. Afterwards, we headed to see a scary movie, Paranormal Activity. It was delicious and we tried the beef soup and fried cheese dumplings for the first time. Of course, we had our favorite fried pork dumplings x2 and we both had a cold Ting [...]

Mock Sesame Noodles

Ryan put together this cold noodle dish, demanded by me. He makes awesome mock sesame noodles, more correctly, peanut noodles. They taste like sesame noodles, but he makes them out of peanut butter. We just get the chewy lomein from the Asian store and mix it in a peanut and balsamic vinegar mix. Sometimes we [...]