Saint Tropez + Lunar New Year

Yesterday I went to Saint Tropez. It’s where all the stars go to hang out in summer, although right now it looks like all other Rivièra towns plus some really high-end clothes shops, minus a lot of useful things like boulangeries. But it was really nice to get away from Toulon.

Saint Tropez

More importantly, I made wontons Friday night. There is one other asian assistant in Toulon, and he is actually from San Jose. Well, we decided to get together to make an Asian food feast for some of our friends, to celebrate the Lunar New Year. I made wontons and a cabbage stir-fry. He made fried rice (I discovered that the secret is fish sauce), and this delicious delicious Vietnamese dessert made from tapioca, bananas, and coconut milk.

Some adventures: There was no microwave so to defrost the spinach I put a bowl in boiling water and covered the pot for a while. As I was wrapping the wontons, I would switch back and forth between worrying I wouldn’t have enough peels to worrying I wouldn’t have enough stuffing, and therefore all the wontons varied greatly in size. On the bright side, I succeeded in making the stuffing taste good for the first time!