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Tweet breakfast

I had cheese for breakfast for the second day in a row. I feel that it’s my responsibility to rid the upstairs of the cheese smell. The only way to do that is to *eat the cheez!*

Din tai fung

Today we bought 100 frozen xiao long bao and brought them home. We just steamed 10 of them in our new bamboo steamer. Heaven…

empty bamboo steamer

dintaifung xiao long bao instructions

The next question is: what kind of vinegar do they use? A quick search revealed this:

[1] “You are going to look for the Gold Plum brand chinkiang vinegar from Nanjing. Tall glass bottle (the glass is clear, so look for a black bottle) with a yellow label and the Gold Plum brand name on the neck.

[2] I recently needed some Chinkiang vinegar, and not finding my favorite brands, I went for what I thought was Gold Plum Brand, which is always dependable. Seeing the price at 99 cents, I thought it was a bargain. I grabbed it in a rush, and it wasn’t until I got home when I found it was not Gold Plum Brand, but another with a similar yellow bottle. It’s the one on the right in the photo, Gold Plum is on the left. The brand on the right is not very good. When I returned to 99 Ranch Market, I noticed that the two brands are stocked right next to each other.

tweet indulgence

j: “when i was growing up, i used to put butter on my croissants.”
m: “you know that croissants are half butter…”
j: “yeah. so?”

if i add enough sugar and half and half to taster’s choice i can almost get it to taste like those awesome vietnamese coffee packets that KCL regifted to me. but then i eat some grapes and some pancakes with syrup and it goes back to tasting like taster’s choice…

rip running

saw my surgeon today and he put an end to my running (which also probably includes pounding court sports, too). he advised me to take up swimming. or buy another bike.

Bike log: day 8

I can’t remember what day this was but it was sometime before the end of March…

8.58 miles / 39.32 minutes / 12.9 mph avgerage speed