Deliciously Pungent.

in my household, we love mak kimchi! i make a new batch every few months because we go thru it pretty quickly and all my friends love eating it too. I prefer letting it ferment so it'll be tart and spicy. I eat it as a side dish or use it to make mostly kimchi chigae which makes a fabulous quick weekday dinner.

Recipes for kimchi chigae is available from Maagnchi who also has a youtube channel, providing video instructions on how to cook. You can also check out Korean Cuisine's kimchi chigae version one and kimchi chigae version two. I usually make a hybrid of those recipes and tweak it to my liking.

Cheers to yummy food!

pizza port.

this, hands down, is my fave pizza joint. my friend, who lives in carlsbad, had introduced me to this spot a few years back and i've been hooked since. i try to stop by and eat here whenever i'm in the area. i also got D loving pizza port too. there are a couple more pizza ports in the south OC and SD area, but i've only been to this one and based upon yelp, this is probably the best one out of the bunch. onward to the pizza porn, an excerpt from my SD weekend, and my three must-haves whenever i go.



pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, fresh garlic, & jalapeno's. my dream pizza.


i love mine swimming in their yummy house made ranch.


garlic beer buddies are just pizza dough covered in fresh garlic, spices and herbs, and baked to perfect. super yummy dipped in marinara and house made ranch. this place is very generous in giving out extra sauces without charging extra.


gotta pair all this goodness with my fave tap - fox barrel apple cider beer. it's a bit tart, fruity, and very refreshing.


they have their house special pizzas with different toppings and they have tons of toppings to choose from if you should choose to create your own. friendly staff and also a large variety of beer on tap as well as bottles.


luckily we decided to leave SD a bit earlier than planned and stopping by Pizza Port to eat and wait out the traffic a bit because we were hitting tons of traffic as we were trying heading back into LA.


Pizza Port Brewery Company
571 Carlsbad Village Dr
(between Roosevelt St & State St)
Carlsbad, CA 92008
find more review on yelp.

mocha chocolate pillow cookies.

source & recipe // eat run read

i'm officially done with my last final tmr nite. sometime this weekend, i'm gonna dust off my kuromi apron, bake ware and test out this recipe.



how amazing is that? brownie + mocha chocolate chip cookie = uber goodness. ingenious idea.



note to self: remember to take pictures before consume everything in one sitting.

tokyo mojito drink.

i just finished my paper and need a mini celebration session. & it doesn't help that this sounds so tasty right now. click on picture or momofuku for 2 to visit her wonderful website for this receipe, and much more!