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- P Party
I swear, this was totally unplanned.
I was almost done throwing together one of my famous whatever’s-in-my-pantry-plus-a-poached-egg-for-protein lunches before I noticed that every ingredient in my impromptu dish began with the letter P.
Which would not in itself be very remarkable, I suppose, were it not for a somewhat traumatic school event I attended at a very […]
- Hysterical Ageusia
I have no idea how to even begin to pronounce “ageusia”, but I can tell you that it’s the medical name for losing your sense of taste.
For six terrifying days, when I was seventeen years old, I stopped tasting. Anything.
No, I didn’t have a cold. Trying to explain ageusia is very frustrating. Almost as frustrating […]
- Some Unusual Breakfast Foods
Yes, I like Spam. I like it, as Hong Kong people do, in soup, with macaroni and frozen mixed vegetables. For breakfast. Preferably with Horlicks (an unfortunately-named malted milk drink, originally from Britain, but now consumed only in former colonies), and puffy toast spread with salted butter and sweetened condensed milk. You can take your […]
- A Short History
It’s 1987, and I am a very small, half-Chinese Martha Stewart. For Christmas, I’ve given everybody hand-made, staple-bound books of seasonal jokes and word puzzles (editor: me; difficulty: none). Hand-written in black ballpoint and illustrated in three highlighter colours, they’re ragged where I got impatient tearing off the perforated printer tracks. I have some […]
