Since last week’s post  when I started sharing our recent travel adventures to China, I thought about coasting through the next few travel posts without sharing any recipes, but that would defeat the purpose of my foodie blog / ongoing digital family cookbook project, a.k.a Bebe Love Okazu. I got away with it the last post with Part I: Beijing, and no recipe, but I will start this post by sharing the second leg of our trip, Xian, and...

Home sweet home! Sunny blue skies and mild California weather. Love it! AND there’s nothing like sleeping in your own bed after a long trip. For two weeks, my family and I were half-way across the world sightseeing in China with my in-laws. Bet you didn’t even notice I was gone, huh? I drafted a few blog posts prior to our departure and scheduled these to be published while we were on vacation. Sneaky, huh? :)   North Beijing...

  It seems wrong to start this post with, “Happy New Year!” as I originally intended, rather than, “Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day!” yet here we are two- going on three- weeks after we celebrated Chinese New Year, wishing all of you a Happy New Rabbit Year. And yes, some of you might be thinking exactly what Bebe Dada voiced. Last night, he bluntly announced that this post is “a little too late, isn’t...

I hope everyone’s weekend is getting off to a great start. I can’t believe it’s already Friday night… And here I am updating my blog. Such is the life of a Bebe Mama with a little one tucked away in her crib. It seems Bebe Dada left the room and the movie he was watching ended. Now I’m sitting in the dark with my laptop and I hear something very scary on TV and I’m afraid to turn around and see what’s...

  This weekend I overindulged in food, some of it was really bad for me – like the Hamburger Doritos and fried wontons. Saturday night we celebrated three of my best girlfriends’ birthdays and we ate crab and temaki sushi.  I love these girls – they REALLY know how to eat.  :)  I forgot to take pictures of the crab but here’s our temaki spread.   Sunday night we watched the Lakers game with Yin-yin and Pa-paw (Bebe...

I had a rare craving for green onion pancakes and decided to make this for my lunch.  Perhaps not the healthiest lunch, but I did try to make this with whole wheat flour.  That didn’t turn out so well, but if anyone has any tips on how to make this with whole wheat flour – by all means, please let me know!  So I had to dump that (a waste, I know – felt guilty – hate to waste food), and make a second batch using white...

  Sauteed Chinese baby bok choy is another quick and easy veggie that I make regularly for dinner.  It goes really well with the ready-made char siu that I buy at the 99 Ranch Market deli, and makes for a REALLY quick dinner on days when there’s too much going on and I don’t have a lot of time. Until I met bebe dada, I only bought baby bok choy when I made chow mein (a recipe for a future post).  He taught me how to prepare this...

  Sauteed pea sprouts always seemed foreign to me.  It’s a dish that I love, but one that I’d only eat if I ordered it at a Chinese restaurant.  It turns out pea sprouts are really easy to cook and enjoy at home. A few months ago we went to visit bebe E’s paternal grandparents on a day when my mother-in-law, whom we refer to as “Yin Yin” (paternal grandmother in Chinese), made pea sprouts.  How lucky for us...