Often when I watch a cooking show, I’m amazed by how much a little bit of oil or a little bit of butter is. Maybe it’s because I’m asian, and everything’s a little smaller in Asia (insert dirty joke here), but a little bit of butter on a cooking show looks like a huge glob to me. That’s probably why I can’t make stuff like Alfredo sauce well– the fat content matters a lot in those creamy white sauces.

On the other hand, I’m amazed by how small a “good amount” of garlic is. When cooking shows say to use a good amount of garlic, it looks like a tiny amount to me. A good amount of cooking show garlic seems like a tablespoon, I usually use at least 3 times that much.

It’s amazing how different eastern and western cooking differs. I’ll try to put recipes inspired by both eastern and western styles, but I’ll leave it to the reader to decide how much a “little bit of butter” or a “good amount of garlic is.”

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