Our family loves the spicy and rich flavors of Korean food. When the kids come home during their school break, their restaurant of choice is the local Korean BBQ. Apparently, in their neighborhoods, there are plenty of Japanese and Chinese eateries but not many Korean. So, off we go and they consume an embarrassing amount of …
Feeling a bit tired or need a protein boost? These little chocolate protein bites uses tofu as the vegetable protein. If you eat protein bars, you will have a good idea what this will taste like. It has that soy flavor, that is commonly used in those energy bars. Now, if you don’t like tofu, …
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, has many different schools of thought. On Asian Lifestyle Design, we have shown arrangements from Ikenobo and Ryuseiha Schools. Today, I’d like to introduce another school called Sogetsu. Compared to Ikenobo, the original school of ikebana with a 550 year history, the Ryuseiha School is 120 years old, …
This last week we have been working and studying with Master Hsu on the next feng shui book he is writing. There is so much information that my brain is full and confused! It’s probably filled with lots of unnecessary and useless information that I pick up here and there in the news and on T.V.. …
I love anything sesame, from the sesame seeds with peanuts sweets, sesame dressing, sesame oil, the Chinese sesame balls with bean paste, and tahini, the Middle Eastern ingredient. If it has sesame in it, I’m bound to love it. In Japanese sesame is goma and it is heavily used in many dishes. Apparently Japan is …
