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I ♥ Sriracha Sauce

I haven't craved much spicy foods since I got pregnant (the horror!), and I have continued to stay away from the stuff while breastfeeding. That being said, I am a connoisseur of spice/hot sauces and my all-time favorite remains sriracha sauce. It is precisely for this reason that I believe this updated food pyramid to be awesome: Source: The Sriracha Cookbook Blog. Via Angry Asian Man. ...

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I Am Not a Prisoner

A few days ago, I sent out the following tweet which caused quite a stir: I immediately received dozens of replies, which were soon followed by emails and private messages from those who were worried that I was being held prisoner in my own house. And as much as it warmed my heart to know that so many people cared, all the concern made me laugh a bit because it simply was not true. Allow me to clarify. My husband comes from a very traditional Chinese family and he himself holds many of those traditional beliefs as well. The Chinese believe that the first month after giving birth is the most precarious for the mother and the baby; Chinese custom dictates that both the...

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Meet Cloudy

When my younger sister posted the first picture of herself holding her niece Claire on Facebook, she captioned it: "In the words of Phil Dunphy: 'Claire? Isn't that gonna be hard for her to say?'" (If you don't get the joke, go watch the pilot episode of Modern Family. Hilarious! What a great show!) My sister's words had a ring of truth to them, because according to my mother, we couldn't have picked a worse name for Asians to enunciate — it has both an L and an R! — and NONE of the grandparents can pronounce it correctly. In fact, one night my father mistakenly called Claire "Cloudy" instead. Where he got the extra syllable, no one knows. But the error managed to crack...

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