Category: Baking
ALMOND PEAR TART (杏仁撻)
“Where did Colin go for Christmas?”My mother likes to understand my roommate’s whereabouts, not because of some great interest in his life, but because she likes to be generally aware when there is a short-term vacancy in my 2bd apartment. “He’s good, he went home to visit his mom for the holidays. They are close.”… Read more
MILK BREAD (牛奶麵包)
Gays in crisis have two options before them: dye your hair blonde or learn how to bake. Short, black hair is extremely difficult to bleach, so when I was laid off from my job recently, the first thing I did was order a loaf pan from Amazon. Thinking back on it, I’m actually not sure… Read more
THOUSAND LAYER PANCAKE (抓餅)
The first time I ever ate a thousand layer pancake was at the famed A&J Restaurant on Rockville Pike in Maryland. To order there, you make small tallies on a paper menu (a culinary scantron, if you will). My mom wrote a “2” next to “抓餅” — we’d never seen them before but the low… Read more