GUESS WHAT.

we love it here. like, a lot a lot. we love the people, the pace, the one pan-asian restaurant in town, and the close proximity to our families. we love the opportunities and we love the low price of marzipan. we love that it's ok to for real wear plaid and we love that eggboy's family has been here for billions of years. this place is the tops. 

so in august... we're moving here. toothbrush and everything.

!!!!!!

and we're excited as can be. (well, i'm excited as can be. eggboy's excitement right now is masked by his excitement for the new britney spears single, but i'm pretty sure he's really really excited.)

brooklyn did us so well. it brought us together and it introduced us to the best kale ever, the best muffins ever, and some really absurdly wonderful musicians. we'll be back there from time to time to continue with some little projects and fulfill our bagel needs, but for now, this place feels so right.

it feels like the time i went through my closet and got rid of all of my clothes with sequins on them because, even though they were cute and still fit, they were just no longer me. this farm is so me. new york and all of its crazy busyness is not very me anymore. 

when i got here a few weeks ago, i saw it all: that this place could benefit from more pork buns, more post-minimalism, a real life eggboy... and that i could benefit from more lefse, hotdish, and the very occasional oof-da taco. i started thinking of names for my chickens, i even discovered an adorable local magazine and am now working on an article for it. 

i'd love to open a bakery here and maybe shoot some cooking videos or throw dumpling parties and play marimbas in the fields... i want a cute vintage pick-up truck so i can drive around and meet everyone here. and i'm really excited to pioneer dinner bell vibrato. you guys, i could barf in excitement. 

-yeh!!!!!! 

FARGO: INSTAGRAMS

here are a few more fargo scenes, complete with the eggboysister, eggboysistercat, and a water tower that matches the cupcake cups that i bought in hong kong (should i have a cake party about it?).

some of these photos are actually from a little town that was on the way back from fargo called hillsboro. we stopped there to go to our town on the recommendation of eggboysister. our town is the cutest little bakery with the yummiest caramel rolls and the yummiest looking other things that i wish i had the belly room to try. it was such a gem in a town of, like, six people, and i think i'll no longer be able to go to fargo without stopping through.

-yeh! 

FARGO

we drove on the back roads, not the big roads. we drove past the farm where his grandma grew up and we admired the big oak trees that lined the pathway to the house. i took pictures of the sky and he said how nice it was to be surrounded by so much of so little. just the fields and the clouds and the occasional red barn.  

we welcomed ourselves with breakfast burritos and walked them off as we poked our heads into shops filled with jewelry and soaps and magazines made right there in town. at the park we swung on swings and discussed polyrhythms and swatted away mosquitos before going inside to make cherry marshmallows and graham crackers with his sister and her beekeeper boyfriend.   

into the night we biked by the river, over a bridge, and through plenty of bug guts. tell me about your first smooch, said his sister. ok but then tell us about yours, we said. 

a midnight s'more and a morning sticky bun later, we drove back from one very good trip.

-yeh! 

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places in fargo i met and loved

hodo lounge it's part of the hotel donaldson, a cute boutique hotel. their wild rice burger was yummy in my super hungry tummy.

juano's mexican restaurant breakfast burritos served all day.

unglued super cute crafts and gifts made by local artists.

tochi's a great health food store with lots of asian ingredients, including half a pound of black sesame seeds for two dollars!!!!!!  

zandbroz variety an indie bookstore that also sells an anthropologie-esque selection of soaps, kitchen stuff, and stationary. 

proper & prim if i wasn't with eggboy, i would have stayed in this store all day trying on all of the colorful and really reasonably priced dresses. 

HONG KONG: INSTAGRAMS

since my pops arrived, my dumpling intake has pretty much tripled and it's only going uphill in a downhill/loosen-the-belt way. we take hours to indulge in the wild hotel breakfast that has stations for like every breakfast food imaginable (and non-imaginable), including breakfast noodles and breakfast blue cheese and breakfast bao... and our favorite, breakfast 粽子. 

last night we had a molecularly gastronomized xiao long bao. ​(don't even. i'll discuss later.)

yesterday we had our first rehearsal with the phil and it went well. it was fun to play with my dad and aziz! aziz has surrounded himself with like a thousand bass drums and if i didn't know him i'd be scared. 

after rehearsal i dragged those two to the street with all of the kitchen supplies stores and it was the most jaw-droppingly amazing out-of-body cake mold experience. hey molly, did you buy any cool things in hong kong?  7,000 beautiful cupcake cups for the price of about two normal vending machine trips.

other enjoyable moments from these past few days: running into some friends from juilliard who were stopping over en route to bali, eating the most fabulous black sesame ice cream with the hugest black sesame seeds and not giving a damn about them getting stuck in my teeth, meeting a giant inflatable duck, and finding soup dumplings at the 7-11.​

​ok, i am off to play more gong!

-yeh!​