The Taiwanese food’s better here
There is an upside to taking your Taiwanese mother-in-law to a Taiwanese restaurant, and it is that she will prove beyond all doubt that that restaurant is not authentic, by transporting her entire kitchen to your apartment built for two people, staff it with her domestic helpers and enlist yours to the same cause, and […]
Second month confinement
You’d think right after a month of recuperation and adhering to (some of the) traditional post-partum confinement rules, we’d be ready to go out and show Baby Kai off to the world. H1N1 has put paid to that, and thankfully we had a small group of family and friends who came by and celebrated with […]
A good start
For New Year’s this year we decided that it would be nice to observe a little family tradition. From Naomi’s side of the family, that is. From Naomi’s father’s side of the family, that is. Mixed marriages are so much fun. We decided to do this traditional New Year’s Eve and Day thing so that […]
Times are tough when your Ramen gets smaller
After a really long day, Naomi, her mum and I decided on Ramen Santouka for dinner, and we were a little taken aback by the notices they put up, some of them about how your Ramen-Ricebowl-Egg set has been downgraded to a Small-Ramen-Salad set, and that you have to cough up an additional dollar to […]
Eating the twelve days of Christmas
Meat lovers’ Christmas lunch We ate Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and we’re probably gonna be eating the weekend as well. We’ve been feasting so much because you gotta have turkey and you gotta have ham, and those things can only come in certain sizes – there’s no fun-sized turkeys or hams – […]