• Finally

    Thoughts So, review's finally over and I am still contemplating if I should go ahead with my plan on going around the province on a walkathon. Hmmmm.... Anyway, another review's coming up, late May, and I am thinking of joining, but my agency is apparently too busy to reply to my messages, so I have…
  • My Corner Deli in Astoria

    After seeing @billyeats post about his corner deli, I got to thinking about the topic of that local deli you grow up going to. Until age 15 I lived in the heart of Astoria, Queens, so I was near many great food establishments, many of them delis and pizzerias. As a kid, of course, I wasn’t aw…
  • Dad's lunch

    Dad used to always get a Hershey bar in his lunch and he worked hard for it. I just remember getting the liverwurst sandwich in mine.
  • National Grilled Cheesus Day!

    Ur.... Yeah. Apparently, April 12th was National Grilled Cheese Day, or as Gleeks like to call it "National Grilled Cheeus Day." Anyone who watches the show will remember that earlier in season 3, Finn Hudson, resident football and Glee club star, claims to have found the face of Jesus in his gri…
  • Bijoux Afternoon Tea @ Palm Court, The Langham, Hong Kong

    (Photo courtesy: BeautySwot) A piece of tea news for sweet-toothed readers who think the holy festival of chocolate eggs is not sweet enough: award-winning pastry chef Cherish Finden from The Langham, London, is visiting Hong Kong again. After the success of "Bijoux Afternoon Tea" last year, Chef F…
  • San Francisco International Airport: A Major Foodie Destination

    I wrote a post about good airport food at JFK in New York about a week ago. This is going to be Part Two of Finally! Good Airport Food. This time around I am featuring San Francisco International Airport, an airport I have visited twice in my lifetime, most recently this past July. My family and I…
  • Bánh Mi Brunch

    A few weekends ago we had friends over for brunch. I had slow-roasted a pork shoulder and thought it might be nice to thinly slice the meat and make Bánh Mi, the Vietnamese style sandwiches, as a main course.Appetizer: cubes of fresh mango (so sweet this time of year!), drizzled with plain yogurt an…
  • McDonald's From Around the World

    McDonald's in the rest of the world is very different from in the US. Not only do they use higher quality meats and produce, but they also adapt to the cuisine of each country. I was surprised when I found that McDonald's in Italy served caprese salad, beer in Germany, and tuna bocadillos in Spain.…
  • Sandwiches Every Day? Sign Me Up!

    The problem I used to run into most commonly when packing food for lunch was the issue of repetition. I found that when trying to save money/time, it was easiest to buy large quantities of fewer ingredients, and to try to stretch the purchases as long as humanly possible. For lunch, I found it ch…
  • the sandwich

    bluemooncat enormous thing: haibun. Should I tell you what that means or do you want to google like I had to? Fine. prose poetry with a side of haiku. A sandwich lovingly ordered with all the right coverings, all the right insides. Each delicious addition painstakingly assembled by plastic-co…