This iced grass jelly matcha latte has been one of my favourite ways of enjoying grass jelly at home! It’s lightly sweet, refreshing, and is the perfect treat. I grew up eating grass jelly a lot with sweetened milk (if I remember correctly, we used sweetened condensed milk) and sometimes with cut up fruit. Apparently […]
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Ginger Syrup
One time when I was in Vietnam, I experienced for the first time what David Lebovitz describes as the “zip” of ginger syrup. I was about seven years old and I had gone to visit my grandparents, to meet them all for the first time. My parents had immigrated to Canada before I was born, […]
Mango Lassi (Sinh to xoai)
Mango Lassi: a milkshake drink that’s fresh and full of mango goodness. Some of you may be aware that I am currently doing a MA in Translation Studies. My academic work doesn’t often permeate my blog, but recently, one of my professors suggested that most people who pursue translation as a career often have […]
Vegan Frozen Hot Chocolate
Sometimes I like to indulge in some hot chocolate, but lately the weather in Toronto has been flip flipping between cold enough to snow or warm enough to be sweater weather. It’s getting ridicadonk. Anyway, I like to peel off the layers and cool off from being ridiculously overdressed by indulging in a little frozen […]
Peach Apricot Mango Iced Tea
Nothing like a nice glass of cold, lightly sweetened tea with summery fruits to make your day better. This week is RIDICULOUSLY hot. It feels like I’m back in Vietnam where we had iced sweet green tea every day to try and cool off. That and beer. But that’s a different story. In Ottawa, there’s […]
