At Wee Bites, her specialty is the curry puff, a half-moon packet of golden pastry stuffed with potatoes, chicken, boiled egg and curry sauce; there's a vegetarian puff with carrot and bean curd, too. Beckman also grills satay, skewers of beef or chicken, and cooks up both steamed and fried dumplings. Her sweet offerings include a cinnamon-flavored pineapple tart and miniature crepes and steamed coconut milk cakes.

The most expensive item is the curry puff, for $1.75 for a curry. As a reader noted last week, that's crazy-cheap at the Civic Center market, even if every bite at Wee Bites is pocket-sized.

Beckman has been cooking since she was twelve, and says she started dreaming of becoming a professional chef at twenty. She took a more practical career path, however, and worked as an account manager for a group travel company for a decade before starting Wee Bites last year. You can find a menu and contact information for catering on the Wee Bites web site.

Read about Crepes at the Cowboy Cart, last week's featured booth, right here; find out more about Civic Center Eats here. The market opens at noon today, and runs until 2 p.m.