November 12th, 2008
Check out this website I stumbled upon. Isn’t it clever to have your supply of Asian food products delivered to you?! Pardon my excitement but this is the first time I learned about its existence. I sometimes find it quite troublesome to schedule a trip to the Asian food store after I do my grocery-shopping, […]
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November 5th, 2008
I still remember the time when I was a newly-wed, grocery-shopping and cooking felt like going to school for the first time, without my mom to accompany me. I recall making sure the cupboard had an ample supply of the essentials: fish sauce, soy sauce and vinegar. If you chance upon a Filipino household, you’re […]
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April 26th, 2006
Kombu or Konbu is the name for a group of Japanese seaweeds of the genus Laminaria. There are several kinds of kombu, Laminaria angustata (mitsuishi kombu) and Laminaria ochotensis (Rishiri kombu) being utilized the most for making soup stocks. Kombu is rich in naturally occurring monosodium gulatamate. I’m tempted to write more […]
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