Every party features certain characters, and whenever I go to a party, I’m the hungry wallflower. I make my awkward entrance, quickly scan the room for people I know, and desperately try…
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January 2016
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“My favorite dumpling is a hot dumpling,” my friend Chris observed the other day, after we had each wrapped and devoured dozens of potstickers. Prior to that day, I hadn’t wrapped a single…
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I grew up eating Japanese milk bread, except I never knew it as such. I always thought of it as a Chinese specialty because weekly trips with my mom to the Chinese…
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“I don’t make this dish the correct way,” my father-in-law mused to me as I stood by the stove, watching him vigorously stir the milk rice. “What do you mean?” I responded, confused. I…