(All pictures in this post were taken by Alex Hsu.) A few weeks ago, right after my Japanese-Style Strawberry Shortcake post, I got a message from my friend Alex asking if I would cook him delicious food for his birthday. He lives in Jersey City and I live in VA, so my first instinct was to say “Haha…good one…no.” But, I’m a sucker for compliments about my cooking, and I like to feed people, so I told him I’d do it. I didn’t think to run the idea by Dan until after I had already committed us to a road trip, but to his credit he just rolled his eyes and said “Guess I need to take some time off on Friday…” When I...
