i’m addicted to this industry. a-d-d-i-c-t-e-d. my parents are watching from the side line like – wtf is happening to you? you’re going a mile a min, but you’re growing and learning and, d-d-daymn… passion is pouring from my insides again. the last two weeks was exactly what i needed to get back into the [...]
Friday Night. Saturday night. Sunday Brunch. These are very loaded words if you’ve ever worked in a restaurant on the line. People in the industry say that if you walk into any busy restaurant on a Sat night between 6pm and 9pm to stage, it can be pretty telling of what you can expect to [...]
Aghh the life of a cook. so intense, so fascinating, so physically boundary-less. (don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. haha) so much drinking so little eating so much flirting with promiscuity (food is sex. sex is food. y’all have heard that before…) and so much toying between what’s professional and what’s simply [...]
Man. it’s official, i have the world’s most sensitive body. i like how my horoscope today totally warned me about this too – check it: “Difficult sleep; don’t aggravate the situation with a dinner which is too copious or too rich in fats.” HAHAHA, hence i am up at 2:58am on sunday, having to go [...]
Listen to your body, it tells you a lot. i was so full the other day, even though i was at work and i knew i hadn’t eaten in about 6 hours straight, but my instincts when i’m stressed out is always — feed my body when i’m tired, because if i don’t get enough [...]
this is from a conversation i had with Hoai online – thanks for asking ;) – Hoai: hey i have one question for you what are the evils of high fructose corn syrup? my friend told me he avoids it, so now i do too me: it’s “toxic”, like margerine it’s the kind of sugar [...]
i had a huge craving today for – Siew Long Bao or Little Dragon Buns (as i like to call them, with my chinglishy direct translations) and i had a cold sore in my mouth — (the worst enemy in my line of work) but i decided to power through it because once i get [...]
how ironic and sad that chef’s don’t even have time to EAT half the time they are alive. COOKS SPEND about 11 -12 hrs of their day feeding other people, busting their gutts, and hauling butts to cook for others. they never have a moment to sit down and relax and share food with others. [...]
how many times have you mentally or literally reviewed a place like this — “the food was good, not too expensive, but the service was &%($%!” i am almost tired of writing and saying it. because it’s the same thing over and over. there’s a lot to be tolerated, but why should i put up [...]
Sweet Geebas, I feel high from working tonight. we did about 500 covers tonight, and i was on the LINE baby! wahoo! :) speed, consistency, heat, speed, consistency, heat, and FOCUS. if you ever want to see how the food industry really works, jump into a kitchen. for one night, time will stand still and [...]