basically me being aggressively asian & reminiscing over childhood favorites.

• japanese milk candies
  • also especially 旺仔 milk candies
• apple or rhubarb pie
• strawberry/chocolate pocky
• fish coated in breadcrumbs (i always preferred the tilapia to the cod. still don’t know how to pronounce it.)
• hawthorn flakes (山楂糖)
• tomato & egg drop soup
• peanut butter/cheese cracker sandwiches (i liked peanut butter more, but in kindergarten my mom’d always pack me cheese. “your classmates have allergies,” she told me.)
• stir-fried tomato & eggs (my ultimate favorite)
• ^ that, but with pasta in different lil shapes. my favorite was the conch-shell one. the bow-shaped ones bring back memories though
• congee?? wow what a word (we call it 粥)
• ritz crackers
• wheat crackers
• goldfish & cheez-its
• cracker-cut colby jack cheese (specifically the cracker-cut ones)
• hi-chews. specifically mango
• meiji yan yan vanilla, strawberry, chocolate dip & breadsticks
• fluffy breakfast croissants, the ones you get @ costco in those mega-sized plastic boxes
• hello panda cookies
• those crumbly peanut-flavored asian candies in metallic pink/red wrappers
• homemade wonton soup (i lost my first tooth to this, on a mild golden summer evening.)
• chewy caramels with white crème in the middle?? not sure. had one at a bob’s furniture when i was 8 & never recovered
• small spiced dry fish snack (they remind me of fishing with my 爷爷)
• welch’s fruit snacks
• those large seeded italian grapes (always remind me of skating in the 2nd grade)
• warm egg tarts; my mom would always buy them from the asian grocery store when they had them fresh.
• 肉松面包… not sure what this is in english help (meat floss/rousong bread! it’s sweet and savory at the same time)
• red-bean-paste sesame balls (my favorite order in dim sum restaurants)
• small saucy clams
• hot soybean drink? 豆浆 + fried dough
• fluffy meat buns with the cute lil sesame seeds on top
• fried rice with chopped carrots & scrambled eggs
• mini mantou cookies (omg they’re called 旺仔小馒头!!)
• wang wang snow crackers
• warm breakfast mantou my mom would always make. the white ones with yellow paste, the patterned brown ones with sweet nut filling…
• warm cranberry-pecan bread buns, fresh-out-of-the-oven from the teacake shop
• chocolate & apple croissants from our local market’s bakery section
• chinese energy bars?? they’re like 五谷能量棒 or something!!