Dim Sum King Meets Cravings

Dim Sum King Meets Cravings

by | May 11, 2011 | Food Industry

Dim Sum is a fancy Chinese tapas-like cuisine popular in Hong Kong and Southern China. According to fellow Examiner Prairie, dim sum is a brunch-lunch food that features small bites of food, dumplings, and even chicken feet (which are delicious, if you get the braised...
Dim Sum King Meets Cravings

Gourmet Dog Japon

by | Apr 13, 2011 | Food Industry

Street food is popular in Seattle, and there are a few notable farmers markets that play host to well-known food trucks, like Skillet or Maximus Minimus. Not to be left behind, some other smaller businesses are also cropping up with their food truck offerings. I...
Dim Sum King Meets Cravings

Fun Food in HK

by | Feb 12, 2011 | Food Industry

Squid legs! They’re skewered on a stick, and you just point at them. The cook will grab the stick and drop it into a vat of boiling broth that has fish balls floating on the surface. Then she’ll stick the “kabob” in a flimsy paper bag and give...
Uninsured Restaurant Workers

Uninsured Restaurant Workers

by | Jan 7, 2011 | Food Industry

Courtesy of Sarah Wong The International Examiner wrote an interesting article about the struggles of getting insurance. Many of us freelance earners – or low wage earners – know that it’s challenging to obtain affordable insurance. I’m...
Dim Sum King Meets Cravings

Food Trends 2011

by | Jan 1, 2011 | Food Industry

Happy New Year! I’m a member of the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Culinary Professionals Working Group. Basically, we discuss nutrition with a food service bent, such as finding out the nutritional value of obscure foods, celebrating new publications, or...