Chinese Food

I've eaten Chinese food for the last two days. Chinese New Year's is coming up, and we had a big family dinner. I asked my aunts how to make daikon rice cakes. green bag of rice flour mixed in while warm into shredded daikon, mix extra ingredients and steam, cool, and fry. i think it would be fun to make rice noodles too. and try out different rice flours. california is such a huge rice producer i bet there's some good local stuff too.

i went to dinner at this shanghai restraunt, 2nd time, with friends from work, they're all from taiwan. i'm the worst asian ever, i'm an american born dummy... i'm going to get better at it, starting with food!

anyways i think i should start by doing more cantonese dishes, my mom watches the chinese cooking shows so shes always doing modern stuff and telling me about it.

i should figure out how to cook some of the chinese new years dishes, i want to be closer to my roots.

in other news... all these seed catalogs are rolling into my mailbox and the descriptions are great. don't know if i'll be planting anything this year or not. i might go and try to get a free plot, or do something indoors? i like broccoli raap a lot.