“I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.” Well, I’ll see if anyone ever asks me Anna… I love this picture, and I am going to measure my own hair when I get home to see if it is as long as Anna’s. Could be… Had a lovely time with little Shirley [...]
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Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
“Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.” All the recipe-wrangling over the last week or so is beginning to bear fruit. Our first feedback form arrived this morning fresh from the floral-bedecked marital home of the new Mr & Mrs Day in West London. As a wedding gift I [...]
Anna May Wong’s Tea Cake
There is a mini Vesuvius erupting in my oven. I decided to make Ruth a birthday cake using Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cake recipe. I made twice the mixture and instead of making individual muffin type cakes, bunged it all in a cake tin. As Sidney and I waited for the spare ribs to come [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
“I’m Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I’m a Hollywood star.” It’s my first night in the new W1 abode. Night is falling over Centre Point, Big Ben and the London Eye and a batch of tea cakes are in the oven. The Marathon Man from my office requested some [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Teacakes
“Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.” I can hardly believe that this is a 1940s photograph of Anna – she looks so MODERN. And her cakes are so good. Rosalind and Jimmy both said so. Unfortunately they got a little squashed in transit from Washington D.C. but Rosalind [...]
Anna May Wong’s Tea Cakes
“I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to.” I saw an Anna May Wong film at the NFT on Thursday night. It’s the first time I’ve seen her in a TALKIE. A very low, very posh voice indeed. I thought she was [...]
Anna May Wong’s Egg Foo Yung
In the Photoplay Cook Book from which this recipe hails, Anna May reportedly defined Egg Foo Yung as “The simplest Chinese recipe of all…a delicious luncheon dish.” Therefore, I chose to slap it together for a nice Saturday afternoon supper. Well, I hate to break it to our readers, but not only do I think [...]
