Asian American basketball player, will be the first NBA player since 1947, certainly made us all Asian Americans proud.  Of course, being a Chinese mother, I am also equally fond of him graduating from the Harvard Crimsons.  He was just signed by the Golden States Warriors, and he will be one of the guards in the team.

Jeremy grew up in Palo Alto, California.  His first exposure to professional basketball started at the age of 5, when his father took him to his first basketball game.  Yeah, so this has been a good year for us, first Ed Wang to the NFL, and now Jeremy Lin to the NBA!!!!

Check out his highlights here at his Harvard days.

The Little One has been loving to do Tangram lately, so I diligently looked up some more options online and found quite a few websites that the little ones can practice on the computer.  Tangram is an ancient game originated in China, consisting of 7 geometric shapes and put together to form shapes.  Check out these sties to see if your kids will enjoy them too.

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/area/tangram.html

http://www.creativeimaginations.net/PAGE4.html

http://games.ztor.com/tang/

Yi mein – 伊麵 – Flat Egg Noodles

Looking for an easy noodle recipe on this hot, humid, lazy summer day….then came across with this popular dish that I love growing up.  Dried fried yi mein (乾炒伊麵) is a very popular dish served in most Chinese restaurant.  They serve this dish for birthday and wedding banquet as well.  It usually comes together with the fried rice at the end of the banquet, as the noodle represents a long life and/or a long marriage.

Yi Mein is a type of Chinese flat egg noodles, made from wheat flour.  They are known for their golden yellow color and the chewy characteristics.  The noodles are usually available in dried form, and involves soaking to make it “stir fried-able”.  It is usually served with shredded port, mushroom, and sometimes with crab meat.

Now I don’t have any of these noodles on hand, and am way too lazy to drive 20 minutes to the nearest Chinese grocery store to get the noodles.  I have some other noodles in the refrigerator, let’s see if that will work.  I will report on that later this week!