Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate it! Chinese New Year, like the Gregorian one, feels like it snuck up way too fast on me this time around and not just because it’s on January 22nd! 

Usually consisting of Subway, Panda Express, Chipotle, and other various options, there's something so nostalgic and comforting that I love about mall food courts. My parents who are from Thailand, however, would complain about how the U.S. food courts always had the same options then go on a tan...

instructions for how to open a pomegranate, step 1: start with ripe pomegranates. the best ones are from farmer's markets, kindergarten schoolyards, or pretty little churches with stained glass windows

“Food has a lot to do with memories and things to do with the past. It’s a conversation piece” -my dad

i cook the same way my mum does, more or less. of course — her hands are faster, defter; sure in the easy confidence of a lifetime of handling knives and sizzling oil.

Castle In The Sky follows the journey of a young girl, Sheeta, who meets a fellow orphan boy Pazu, as she escapes her military captors. Together, they run from military forces and a clan of pirates, the Dola clan, who both seek the magic crystal in Sheeta’s possession -- the former for...

Cute romance films are a dime a dozen, but no one portrays the pure-heartedness of love like Studio Ghibli. Written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son, Goro Miyazaki, From Up on Poppy Hill is one of the best examples this. Although neither extravagant nor groundbreaking, the movie is...