Living in San Francisco, most people would think there is easy access to great Chinese food. I won’t say there isn’t good Chinese food to be found, just that it is not as prevalent as one would assume given the large Chinese population. The thing about Hong Kong is that not only is there great […]...
Back from Beyond the Looking Glass
Traveling to foreign countries is always like stepping through the looking glass for me: some things are similar in strange ways, while other things are completely different in stranger ways. When you land in Hong Kong after a 14 hour flight from San Francisco, the sun’s in the wrong place in the sky, the cars […]...
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4×8 Meme
The lovely Bea of La Tartine Gourmande tagged me for this meme: Four jobs I’ve had in my life: 1. Front counter at the local Chinese takeout place. My very first "real" job – taking orders over the phone, bagging orders, working the cash register, and filling hundreds of little individual containers with sweet and […]...
IMBB #23: Paris-Brest
As the theme for this month’s Is My Blog Burning was Vive La France!, I thought it a wonderful opportunity to revisit all the French pastries I made in pastry school. I decided on one of my favorites, the Paris-Brest. The Paris-Brest was created by a baker in 1891in honor of the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race, […]...
CocoaBella Chocolates
What a weekend for chocolate! From the East Bay on Saturday we went to San Francisco on Sunday, where it was just as sunny and just as cold. Yes, as a native Californian I am regularly derided for my intolerance of temperatures below 75 degrees, but this weekend with temperatures hovering in the 30s, I […]...
Anita Chu, also known as pastrygirl, is a baker, writer, and photographer with a passion for pastry. She trained at Tante Marie's Cooking School and is the author of Field Guide to Cookies, Field Guide to Candy, and Lollipop Love. Anita lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and dog Max. 
