• Noodles & Company

    This is a guest post from Kirbie's Cravings. Noodles & Company is a casual fast food eatery chain that offers different types of noodle dishes from around the world. San Diego hosts a couple of locations, including one inside the UTC mall. I previously visited once and tried the Pad Thai nood…
  • Weekend Warrior

    Sorrow, turmoil, heartache.. I haven't had that moment; and I am afraid will never have that moment. I need to accept this and back-off. I guess scribbling words on paper doesn't mean you hear me. I have learned not an art and not a skill but it is a difficult thing to overcome. Just ranting and rav…
  • Lazy days and Chicken Noodle Soup

    It's been a pretty boring weekend thus far. The only thing constant and active has been the cold. Jon and I decided to conquer a chicken noodle soup recipe together. Maybe it seemed so scary because it's a classic dish that I grew up with my mammie (grandmother) making and grandmas are always culina…
  • Great food in Baolai, Taiwan

    We had a wonderful lunch when we were in Baolai, a small hot spring town about 1.5 hours' drive from Kaohsiung. The restaurant is called "Baolai snacks place" if translated literally. No fancy interior, the kitchen is right by the entrance where they also store and display the ingredients they use.…
  • Jajangmyun - A Popular Korean Dish

    INGREDIENTS Jajangmyun noodles 5 tablespoons Korean black bean paste 2 tablespoons oil 1 tablespoon sugar 4 ounces pork loin 1 tablespoon rice wine 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger salt and pepper 1 medium onion, diced 1 small zucchini, diced cucumber, cut into matchsticks for garnish 1 cup water 1 t…
  • of lunch @ Kovan Foodcentre

    it has been a long time since i go Kovan for lunch. the food market is newly renovated if i remember correctly. anyway, there is a strange trend of stalls there - selling fish ball noodles and every stall is having super long Q. so also don't know which one is gd. decided to try the one with the lon…
  • Occupyng Mall Street

    Noodles & Company Is Ambi-Political Soon after the “Occupy” movements began last winter in the Wisconsin state capitol, Noodles & Company (Noodles) became the symbolic nemesis of oppressed protesters. Speaking for Wisconsin Labor Movement, a young University of Wisconsin grad named Rob Lewi…
  • Another creation using ikura (salmon roes)

    We love ikura (salmon roes), so I have been experimenting different ways of serving them to keep it interesting. This is something I did a month or so ago. This is the appetizer we had, but this can easily be 5 different dishes of amuse bouche or hors d'oeuvres and takes quite a bit of time to prep…
  • Chicken and Vegetables Soba Noodles Soup

    This is a guest post from Teczcape This is another homey one-dish put together - from a soup base made with chicken, flavored up with vegetables (e.g. carrots, napa cabbage) - Chicken and Vegetables Soba Noodle Soup.