My mom's recipe for Vietnamese beef stew with lemongrass - bo kho xa - is one of my favorites from childhood. Eaten with hand-torn hunks of fresh French bread dunked into…
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We stayed up all night waiting for the snow storm, huddled together downstairs watching movies and peering outside frequently to see if the storm had arrived. I logged online every hour…
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Hot and tired on an uncharacteristically warm SF day, we were also for some reason upset with one another. Maybe it was because after a hot summer on the East Coast…
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It felt strange walking around our old neighborhood after being gone for so long - a sort of unsettled feeling that something was just not quite right. Familiar (older) faces were…
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I didn't like thinking that the SF I knew was already different than the SF of today because so much changed in the past two years out there. And so…
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Hoping to avoid the crowds, we joined our geriatric friends for a 5 o'clock seating at Hot Spot -- a Korean hot pot shabu fusion restaurant. It's one of our favorite…
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In lieu of the traditional family portrait of matching sweaters, gritting teeth and stiff, awkward poses in front of a gloriously large tree/roaring fireplace bedecked with stacks of neatly wrapped gifts,…