I'm a 20 year old Vietnamese guy with a heavy background in cooking. Many of my relatives are home cooks and it is from them that I've acquired my passion for cooking. I sometimes document my palatal adventures on nommables.com. I love asian food, especially Chinese, but I've no bias toward a type of cooking. If it tastes good, I'll go for it! My favorite time of the year would have to be the Lunar New Year. My mother would construct 2 dozen sticky rice cakes, filled with pork belly and mung beans, and wrapped in banana leaves. Then she'd stay up all night watching as they cook in a giant pot that we only use once a year just for this purpose. Truly a labor of love. Truly admirable. Back in Vietnam, I stir fried a giant wok of fried rice. There was enough for 7 people and it was a heavy wok with a weak burner but it turned out great! Once I made a french baguette just to cut it up and make garlic bread. I tried to make a croissant with a blitz puff pastry dough in a toaster oven and I had forgotten to use salt in the dough. It was terrible.