3 hours train ride away from home is the Big Apple. Most of our visits there were shopping trips trying to stock up chinese ingredients that we just couldn't get locally. Once in a while, I get the opportunities to go beyond the grocery duty and enjoy a proper sit-down meal. My favorite memory for many years has been the impressive meal at Daniel. The four-hour tasting menu was my first encouter with haute cuisin and I could not stop ever since. Too bad that I did not snap an

For the "Ultimate Sandwich" contest at work, I came up with this recipe. I wanted it to be many things - healthy, tasty, luxurious, and most importantly, unique. The first element came to mind was quail egg. It is petite and already captures all of the four things I was looking for and I knew it would be a crowd pleaser. It may be uncommon in the everyday diet in the states, but it is actually quite popular in Chinese cooking. I can think of a dozen ways to cook it into my fa

This was our first visit to Africa 4 years ago and what drew me there was "Jemaa el Fna", the lively food market in Marrakech, Morocco. I was fully aware of the fact that the official language there is either Arabic or French so there would be quite a lot of not-knowing-what's going-on happening for us absent a common language. But that did not stop me from pursuing those amazing exotic Morocco eats! Day 1, after walking passing the maze like allies, we finally arrived at our