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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 …
3 new recipes adapted from 3 old ones
So, it has begun. The challenge to revisit old recipes and use them as inspiration for something better and, in some cases, …
New year, new approach at cooking and food blogging
It’s the first day of the Year of the Wooden Snake. If I were my younger self, I’d have started writing and …