Here's a kagami mochi altar I created in honor of 2010. Unlike traditional Japanese kagami mochi, Ajumma's consists of plastic rice...

Nowadays men are free to do almost anything like get facials, play the flute and marry another man. I would have gladly accepted these thing...

Favorite store on Abbot Kinney in Venice: Grow Grow carries a myriad of succulents, leafy plants and colorful pots in their courtyard. Insid...

Ajumma knows it's uncool to like Orange County. The place is infamous for its planned communities, spralling shopping malls, spoiled, fa...

Giant Robot show at Japanese American National Museum

Yogurt is the new boba! You can't walk a block in Southern California without running into a yogurt shop. Yogurtland, Yogurt Fun, Yogurt...

Off to Los Angeles for Christmas, assuming a huge winter storm doesn't have its way.

IKEA was starting to feel like IKEBLAH. A recent trip through the lower section, however, showed me they've kicked it up a notch in the...

Usually for office potlucks I boil a box of Suddenly Salad and throw it into the nicest ceramic bowl I own. For this year's holiday par...