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First Grade
Max no longer wears tartans. He has so many girls fawning over him at school, it’s ridiculous. And so a new era begins….
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Candy Sushi-making Kit (Tanoshi Sushi-ya san by Kracie)
A self-explanatory photo series (because I am lazy, although I should state that this was brought by Michiko & Dave for Mina, who watches kawaii Japanese candy-making videos incessantly on YouTube…
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The Perfect Breakfast – East Meets West
Pan-fried eggs with assorted meat, toast, rice porridge, coffee. It’s hard to find a good breakfast in Thailand if you are tired of the standard fare. We found a good…
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Mina loves noodles
I still haven’t finished posting all of the food photos from Nam’s phone.
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Menopausal Chicken, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spent Hen
I came to know about Ms. Hen, and spent hens in general, by accident. I found a ridiculously cheap whole chicken at Tesco a few weeks ago. The thick plastic bag…
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okonomiyaki
We have successfully found a local-ish substitute for yamaimo.
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Nam assembling lunch
…using precut nori patterns she found in Japan on her last trip. Max used to not like eating rice, so this was a ploy to get him interested in it.…
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Baking Babies
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A Farewell to Training Wheels
Max has finally ditched the third and fourth wheels. We tried to get Mina on two wheels at the same time, but her sense of balance isn’t there yet. The…
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Ika Yaki
In both Japan and Thailand, the best seafood can often be purchased off the back of pickup trucks. The sellers bring their catch inland from the sea, and it’s often…
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Cold soba and sliced pork rolls
A killer lunch that Nam made a while back.
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Max’s Drawings Q1 2014