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Tapioca pearls (珍珠)
View recipe: Tapioca pearls (珍珠)6/14/2025 Kids, there are some times in life when you just fail. I wanted to make a pearl recipe from the Made In Taiwan book by Clarissa Wei. Simple ingredients and steps. It seemed easy enough. I had forty minutes to attempt to make pearls with Nieces 1 and 2. So, we hurried. I poured…
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Happy Birthday
View recipe: Happy BirthdayHi Niece #1, I just wanted to wish you an early happy birthday because I’m not sure if you’ll be checking email much in Taiwan. You are double digits! I am so proud of you for so many reasons. You started as the niece who hated me (based on the number of times that you…
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Sizzling Rice Soup
View recipe: Sizzling Rice Soup5/30/2025 Kids, today I attempted the sizzling rice soup. I used the Made With Lau recipe as my base. It needed shrimp and chicken, but I just made it vegetarian because I didn’t have shrimp and the chicken wasn’t defrosted. Plus, mommy says that we don’t eat enough veggies. Anyways, here is how you make…
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Hi, I’m Jonathan. This space is where I share my own journey: learning to love food, cooking, and other things that come with life.
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