Day 101: Double Fortune Cookie--Better Than A Lucky Cricket

We're officially in the triple digits + 1!

Double Fortune Cookie (from Siam Chan)

I don't remember what the first one said, but I definitely approve of the second one, which said "You will spend the rest of your life in happiness."


My mom taught me never to resist good advice. I'm as passive with this one as a bubble on the wind, thank you very much. As long the fortune as it doesn't come from a talking Chinese dragon with a lying self-proclaimed "lucky" bug, I think I'll be all right.

Associated with: Mulan

Day 54: Preserved Egg Lean Meat Congee ("And It's Happy To See Ya!"

Preserved Egg Lean Meat Congee

Status: Restaurant (YVR--Vancouver Airport!)

Satisfaction: 10.

Associated with: Mulan

Yes, it was amazing. And yes, it was airport food. That is just so wrong, I know. But somehow Canada manages to make it right.

This scene from Mulan is one of my favorites.

Presenting the congee--

"And it's happy to see ya!"

and then...

"Get out of there, you gonna make somebody sick!"

Classic Eddie Murphy. By gosh, I miss the days when all he did was voice animated animals really, really well.

Day 36 (3.9.12): Filipino Spaghetti (Meets Mulan)

Filipino Spaghetti

Status: Homemade.

Satisfaction: 10. I've been craving this since I had it for the first time two summers ago in San Diego!

Associated with: Mulan

I assure you that whatever the Chinese poets imagined Mulan to look like in the days of yore, this was probably not it. Ahh, the things fusion will do when culture meets culture and adapts! And just as Mulan was never meant to be a Disney princess (she's not! Disney says she is, though, according to their princesses website), spaghetti noodles were probably never meant to collide with the sweet, tangy, and sinfully delicious combination of (soy) meats in this Filipino dish.