For the last few weeks I’ve been switching over my morning caffeinated beverages from hot to cold. For the mornings when I’m groggier than usual and in dire need of caffeine, I’ll do cold brew coffee instead of hot. And for the rest of the time, when I’m already pretty functional, I’ll make a nice [...]
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Ginger Milk Tea
I first made this ginger milk tea 5 years ago, shortly after starting my blog, during what seemed like a long and endless winter. I had been feeling a bit under the weather and had a half pound of ginger just sitting on the kitchen counter, waiting for the cooking that I was too weary [...]
Matcha (Green Tea) Pound Cake
As an over-consumer of food magazines and Pinterest images, I’ve come to miss the cookie and cake pictures this month. Now that the holidays are over, it seems like many of us have taken a hiatus from baking. January is supposedly the time for salads and soups and juice cleanses, right? At least, that’s what [...]
Earl Grey Shortbread
Sometimes I bake late at night as a way to wind down after a long day of work in front of the computer. Mostly chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies, but sometimes pies, if I’m feeling a bit ambitious. (We’re talking 10:30 or 11pm, after all.) Yes, there are countless nutritionists who’ll tell you that [...]
Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Not Your Average Tea Party
On Saturday night I hosted a tea party. No, not the kind with teddy bears and imaginary chamomile in Fisher Price cups. Instead, for this month’s Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24 event, I invited a few friends over to our Shanghai lane house apartment, turned on some Duke Ellington, and served finger foods and drinks made [...]
Kashmiri Chai
There are many things about the US that I started missing immediately after arrival in China: unrestricted internet, entertaining TV, concept of “personal space”, the use of bleach and other disinfectants in public restrooms, just to name a few. Then there are the foodstuffs that, after months of searching, I came to realize are simply [...]
Korean Cinnamon Tea
The smell of cinnamon brings out the New Englander in me. One whiff and I would start pining for apple orchards, hayrides, and a big piles of raked leaves ready to be jumped in, even though I actually grew up in a city and rarely did all that bucolic fall stuff. But ’tis the time [...]
Blooming Teas
If foodies have food porn, can tea geeks have tea porn? I got a bunch of these display teas at Beijing’s Maliandao, the street that has so many tea shops even the air outside smells like tea. These tiny bundles of flowers and green or black leaves are hand-packed and hand-sewn into various shapes. They [...]
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