Asians can bake, y'all.

I LOVE Asian bakeries. The cakes are light, and the sweetness level is really nice. Some desserts you get in Western culture are just ZOMG SUGAR, but they're more subtle with it at the Asian bakeries, and a lot of times there's tasty fruit involved. Natural sugar = Win.

We had a CSer staying with us for a few days, and he left a couple days ago, but not without buying us some goodies from the Vietnamese bakery. It was all gone when I got back from work, except for a mung bean cake in a sealed wrapper, so I stowed it away for later.

It looked a lot like a Moon Cake, which I'd only had once before, that I can remember. Ma brought some back from one of her trips to Taiwan, in one of the rare instances when she actually brought sweets home for me to eat. It had a glazed, buttery-looking exterior, the filling was red bean, I think, and it looked like there was a whole egg yolk in the middle! I was much more accustomed to American desserts, so I found it to be a little bizarre, but tasty.

Anyhoo, I had a piece of the Vietnamese mung bean cake yesterday, and OMG SO GOOD. Not quite like that moon cake, but definitely similar.

Asian bakeries are full of tasty, tasty evil. BEWARE :O

Oh, hell.

I think I'm starting to run a fever. Guess my nutritionist's theory wasn't far off the mark. :/

And the gym is closed down, for some reason that they've yet to tell us about! WTF? I guess my one day off is going to be two, though, because I'm not going to wushu with a fever.

Anyhoo, some pic spam that I've been meaning to toss out there:

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Did those a couple weekends ago. I've never really done the glamour/lingerie thing before, but I think we made it interesting. And I lovelovelove the one on the left. It's classic and totally different from the rest of her portfolio. She normally does pinup work that skews more cheesy, which I also think is fun, but, well, I like to test people. ;)

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