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Do you like eggs for breakfast?
If food historians have their facts right, the habit of eating eggs for breakfast is rooted in farm life before the …
Vietnamese mixed fish sauce
It’s nuoc cham, not nuoc mam. Nuoc mam is fish sauce straight out of the bottle. It’s not something one makes at …
Garlic fried rice is just one of the many variants of sinangag (Filipino fried rice)
It’s true. I wish that Wikipedia would amend its misleading entry which cites a misleading source.
There are so …
Kimchi juice
When you buy kimchi, the vegetables are soaked in liquid, right? When I was clueless about kimchi, I thought that spices and …