Archive | December, 2008

Making glutinous rice balls (tong yuen)

3 Dec

Glutinous rice flour.

Took me 3 times to get it right but no matter, because at last I managed to satisfy my tong yuen craving which had been bugging me for the past week. The previous two failures were due to my own carelessness. I used rice flour instead of glutinous rice flour. The balls made with ordinary [...]

Do You Have a Sycophant in Your Life?

1 Dec

A hyena-like giggle slowly rose from behind me and sunk deeply into my ears as if a bee had just landed its arse on my eardrums. I stopped eating and turned around to check out the source of the unsettling sound. It’s a woman in her 20s, decent-looking girl with bright eyes. She was surrounded [...]