Hi, I'm Wen! Welcome to EggRollsandMore! This blog features (mostly) healthy recipes with a touch of Chinese 5-element principles, also known as medicinal diet. What this means is that the recipes use ingredients that are good for our health. We are what we eat! If our daily diet is good, we can maintain our health longer. My paternal grandmother lived to 102 and there were no processed foods back then. I want to share with you how you can make super healthy and delicious meals!
Love of Foods
I learned how to cook at a very young age. Using Tatung electric rice cooker to cook rice was my introductory to cooking at age 9. Being the youngest and the only daughter in the family, I helped my mother prepare dinner after school. I started to collect cookbooks and recipes and the sky was the limit!
I've lived in the United States for a long time, but I long for going back to Taiwan for the delicious foods the island has...from Michelin star restaurants to street foods. For many years, my life was very, very busy from having a great and demanding corporate career to raising two sons. I instilled Taiwanese foods in my sons since they started to eat solid foods. When they were young, I took them back to Taiwan every three years and they developed the love for healthy and delicious foods. I created this blog to share our love for the foods and introduce them to you!
Feng Shui
Growing up I've heard about feng shui but didn't understand how it works or how it affects our lives. It wasn't until an accident happened to my second son. When my son was two years old, on a Friday afternoon the daycare called that he fell from a playhouse and his eyebrow and eye area were bleeding from open wounds. We took him to the hospital emergency room, the doctor gave him anesthesia and we sat and waited for 30 minutes for the anesthesia to work. After 30 minutes, it didn't work, the doctor gave him another shot and we waited again. After the second shot, the anesthesia still didn't work and the doctor decided to stitched him up. The wounds were less than an inch from his left eye and thank god, his eye was good.
Not long after that, I was in Chicago Chinatown and I went into a bookstore, browsing books aimlessly. I picked up a small feng shui book and flipped through pages. One section caught my eyes. It said that when a poison arrow points at the south side of your house, your second son will have injury around his eyes. Needless to say, I bought the book. The fact was that the corner of my neighbor's house was pointing at the back of our house which was south facing. We immediately had three evergreens planted to block off the corner (poison arrow.)
After the incident, I became more interested in feng shui. I went to Kuala Lumpur twice to studying feng shui with Grand Master Lillian Too, received Master Practitioner and Master Consultant certifications and implemented the feng shui principles into my environment and my life.
Yoga
From feng shui, I became more spiritual and developed the love for yoga. Yoga is not only a form of exercise, but also a way of life! In order to learn yoga, I enrolled in yoga teacher training, studied yoga philosophy and became a certified yoga instructor.
Travel
Since I was born and raised in Taiwan, came to the States in my early twenties and did international travels in my career, traveling has been my passion. Be it a small, sleepy town or a large cosmopolitan city, I enjoy sightseeing, local foods and different cultures. I'm grateful to be where I am today to have the experiences of corporate America, feng shui, yoga, traveling and world cuisines. Life is good!
Namaste!