Cute panda cookies and more

Trips are usually centered around meals. The tour with Damon & Naomi with Boris and Kurihara was not. Getting to soundcheck on time wiped out most chances for a decent lunch-time excursion, and I had to set up the merch table before the doors opened and then stay there--which often meant no dinner, either. True, I tried some new foods like In-N-Out fries (animal style), a messy hippie burrito (the tortilla was more like a shawl than a straightjacket), a microwaved veggie-burger (adorned with local olive spread), and 50 Cent-flavored Vitamin Water (Kanye was sold out), but there was nothing worthy of food journalism (or even blogging).

So when I got back to L.A., going to Wendy's parents' house for dinner was a treat. A scoop of rice, some greens and squash from the backyard, and bean thread followed by watermelon and apple pears. Yeah!

But back to junk food, there was a box of cookies shaped like pandas that one of her cousins brought from China. I don't know how long it had been on the dining table, but with me gone it remained sealed for way too long.


Wendy's dad ate the first one. It's kind of like a combination of those Danish butter cookies and a really subtle chocolate cookie that you might eat with tea. Not bad, but they look more like koalas than pandas. Sadly, I prefer Circus Animal Cookies.

Let's revisit that first image. See the Chinese newspaper? Whenever I'm at the Lau house, I always flip through the pages to see if there are embarrassing paparazzi photos of Dan and Lisa. Not this time, but there was an article on crafters!


Whoa! If a nation of billions takes up crafting, who know what will happen next?

The next post will be more focused, I promise.