So all I wanted was rice noodles. Quarter-inch thick rice noodles – to be exact. Last time I bought them in Carrefour and saw a whole boxful in the Al Maya market just downstairs from my apartment. Should be as easy as buying oh, rice perhaps?
Well, I don’t know what’s worse. Driving to 5 different grocery [...]
My mom makes a killer Vietnamese Sweet and Sour Soup. It’s pretty much restaurant quality. Actually, it’s better than restaurant quality. She gave me the recipe a few years a go and I like to make it every once in a while because it’s mm-mm good. DB’s not a big soup person so he will [...]
First let me say that I managed to figure out my photo uploading issued with Wordpress. Turns out that I have neglected upgrading to the new version for months and months now and after upgrading to the lates WP version, everything is working again. Well…sort of. I have never been able to upload via Firefox [...]
It’s been many long months but the search for bubble tea has finally yielded some results and I have tasted and photographed the proof!
Noodle House (a Jumeirah branded restaurant) has introduced Bubble Tea at their restaurants for 18 dirhams. I had the almond one and it wasn’t as good as the ones I’ve had in [...]
Thanks to comments left by ellen and Nerissa, I checked out the new Korean supermarket in the Safestway market (on Sheik Zayad Road just south of the Mazaya Center).
Woo-hoo! Now I don’t have to drive all the way to Karama for my Korean fix!
New, bright, and airy. Well laid out aisles, a frozen [...]
I haven’t forgotten about Arabic Sundays but they will most likely be few and far in between since I don’t cook as often anymore. This work things just gets in the way of everything!
This is a dish I cooked up months ago but just got around to posting. La-ham nashif or meat fried with [...]
Last Saturday, DB and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. We decided to get married when we found out that DB was getting transferred to Dubai for work. Getting married meant that my residence visa, health insurance, etc wouldn’t be an issue if I decided not to work.
We chose the 5th anniversary of our first [...]
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