Lunar New Year is one of my favorite times of the year, and one tradition I’ve kept going from my mom is the candy tray—also […]
Category: Food Comics
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
True, an entire cake can clock in at around 800 calories, but all you ever need is half of a wedge, right? And it’s only […]
Mooncakes: A Full Circle
The Mid-Autumn Festival, aka August Moon Festival, is coming up on September 17, 2024 and somehow we ended up with a bunch of mooncakes 🥮 […]
The Circle of Mooncake Life
It’s interesting how the traditional foods I used to spurn in my tween / young adult years are now the foods I can’t get enough […]
The Many Methods of Cooking Zong Zi
Some choose the old school method of boiling the bamboo wrapped sticky rice in a pot for six hours, which is not fun in the […]
Happy Winter Solstice ?✨
My auntie 姨姨 says that winter solstice day will always be four days before Christmas. If only all the lunar dates were as easy to […]
Happy Egg Tarts & Sweet Treats
Combining my love for iPhoneography and illustration on this Chinese bakery sweet treat case featuring egg tarts and friends (which I think are coconut cakes?).
Eat mooncake!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival and get your mooncakes on! Also, what is a mooncake without the salted egg yolk?
“What did the Chinese tamale say to the Mexican zong?”
It’s zong zi 粽子 making season, aka zong, joong, doong or Chinese tamale. In my family, we call them joong, which is the Cantonese pronunication. […]
Celebrate Lunar New Year
Celebrate Lunar New Year and usher in the year of the ox with this cute tray of togetherness platter of sweets traditionally used to welcome […]