Joe, my sister’s boyfriend, is probably one of the brainiest people I know. He is a neurologist by day, fierce board game enthusiast by night and, as it turns out, quite the accomplished cook. When we found out that he could make “niu rou mein” – a slow cooked beef noodle soup with a myriad of spices, beef shank, daikon and winter melon our family asked (or demanded) that he made it for our little reunion this week. Whatever shame we had in our request was lost with the first slurp of this deliciousness.
