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Fluency in Asian Lifestyle in America
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Food: Food section is on a roll. I have been posting a lot of recipes and cooking during the pandemic. Also topics regarding Korean kimchi and Hanwoo beef.
- Hanwoo beef – Korea’s premium beef – Get to know Korea’s version of Wagyu and Kobe beef.
- Kimchi – just more than cabbage – Discussion on different types of kimchi.
- Milk tea scone – taking Taiwanese milk tea popularity and making a scone because why not, they are everywhere
- Apple pie air fryer style -classic American dessert icon done easily with air fryer
- Chocolate and butter cookies – simple baking recipe for cookies that taste great – butter and chocolate flavors
- Honey garlic pork chops – sweet and savory sauce with pork chops. Added honey glazed carrots as side dish.
- Whole fish with miso and rice wine – Here is whole fish recipe using miso and Korean rice wine to give it a unique taste
- Scallops with bacon and miso – Bacon wrapped scallops done the healthy way.
- Healthy pork chops with taro fries – Pork chops are lean but preparing them with an air fryer along with taro fries makes them extra healthy.
- Steak with kimchi butter – Made butter kimchi to serve with steak. New flavorful twist to a classic.
- Sweet dumpling chips – Here is a great use for your dumpling wrappers. You can make this quick sweet snack.
- Scallop with lemon butter sauce – This is a great combination to bring out the zest in the scallop. Great summer dish.
- Flank steak garlic herb butter sauce – Another flank steak recipe using my own butter sauce for a succulent combination.
- Cheese sponge cake – Classic Asian sponge cake using an air fryer. Added cheese because why not!
- Oatmeal crusted chicken – Healthy alternative to crispy checking using oatmeal and yogurt.
- Flank steak with balsamic dressing – Another flank steak recipe with a refreshing twist for the upcoming spring season.
- Honey almond seaweed – Easy to make healthy Asian snack using seaweed, honey, almond and sesame seed.
- Lemon butter salmon – Great recipe that crusts the butter well with lemon and has Mexican style corn as an extra.
- Chicken sausage with potatoes – A great brunch idea to try.
- Healthy sesame chicken – Using air fryer to make the chicken healthy style.
- Flank steak with jalapeño – Spicy hint to a juicy flank steak.
- Miso glazed chicken – Puttiing a Japanese twist using miso paste.
- Honey glazed salmon with chili – Since our two previous posts were chicken, we’d mix it up with fish.
- Spicy Korean chicken wings – Hope you try and find the experience tasteful!
- Crispy chili chicken drums – We also whipped up a new recipe for chili chicken drums with crunchy lotus roots.
Self: Also posted about self-learning. I am always learning to better myself and want to share it in the post below.
- Flash Boys review – Michael Lewis book on high frequency traders and my thoughts on the book
- How to improve your habits – My thoughts on Atomic Habits. We are all looking for help in this area and this book covers it well.
- How to be a leader – My thoughts on book Infinite Game and how leadership style is changing from recent past.
- How to be charismatic – My thoughts as an introvert on this book – The Charisma Myth.
- Improve your thought process – My perspective after reading Thinking in Bets.
- How to manage finances better – New way to look at money. My thoughts on Psychology of Money.
Beauty: I have posted some beauty products that we have reviewed. Please check it out.
- Collagen supplements – I go over what collagen supplements are and recommend two Japanese products.
- Beauty eye mask – I go over the popularity of eye masks and review a popular Japanese one.
Hope this gives you fresh perspective!
Fashion: Very first post in the fashion section. I will be discussing the inspiration I got from my college days when sustainable fashion was not even a movement. Please read the blog and get to know some Taiwanese culture as well.
- Sustainable Fashion Ideas – I discuss my masters program and sustainable fashion.
Happy learning!