Genmaicha (brown rice tea)

If you've eaten at Jipan and tried their house tea, you might have noticed that it is a bit different from house teas in other Chinese and Japanese restaurants. It is pale … [Read more...]

Korean japchae, spicy stir-fried noodles

Stir-fried noodles for breakfast? When you're in Asia, that's not so surprising. Noodles are served for breakfast in many ways -- with soup, as a stir-fried dish, with meat, … [Read more...]

Noodle soup, not instant

The past two days have been wet and cold and I wanted something steaming hot for breakfast today. There's frozen beef broth (home-made from beef bones, then frozen in … [Read more...]