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Comfort Food #11: Ice Cream Playlist
It is a pleasure to be the slowest ice cream eater in the world.
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comfort Food #9: Noodle Dreaming
Very often, the dream of the bowl of noodles doesn't match up to reality. I guess these are the bowls I don't photograph and don't write about. I have a…
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comford Food #8: Chicken and Rice
I cook and eat in brief pockets of time when the puppy sleeps. My body has adapted now to her routine. I lack the energy and creativity to make anything…
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comfort Food #7: A Personal History of Braised Pork
Mum sends me screenshots of the recipe from The Woks of Life. Over lunch, she gives me a step-by-step verbal summary of the recipe. It’s a new way of…
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comfort Food #6: Water Tigers
Happy lunar new year! I'm not superstitious. At least, I didn't think I was, but today I wore red and didn't wash my hair. It was only a couple of years…
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comfort Food #5: 粥
粥 The month of December was wet, heavy. In the strange quiet of the lead-up to the new year, there was little to do but stay indoors and stir congee. I…
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Nina Mingya Powles
Comfort Food #4: Emergency Kimchi
Cut 2 pounds of cabbage into thin strips and place in a large bowl. In late summer I read Crying in H Mart in a hungry rush. I couldn’t go slow, even…
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Crispy Noodles
Crispy Noodles
Monthly (ish) notes on cooking, memory and comfort by Nina Mingya Powles.

Crispy Noodles

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