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• Malacca, Malaysia, chicken, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Visceral Overcrowding

  04.12.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  My college we’re-practically-married roommate Emily liked to regale me with stories of her endearingly eccentric music librarian father. A few times she told me about family trips, in which her father would permit his family breakfast, and then insist on sight-seeing (I have a feeling it included a lot of museums) straight though until dinnertime [...]

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• chicken, headaches, huzhou, less food-related, musings

  Lysol on the Soles of Her Shoes

  08.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Much as I enjoy living in China, there are things that continue to ‘get to’ me. Like, say, the traffic: the blatant, widespread disregard for red means stop, green means go; the whole idea of ‘right of way,’ ‘yield to pedestrians,’ or, for that matter, ‘yield.’ There is not only a manifest ambivalence for traffic [...]

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• Shanghai, chicken, dessert, entrees, fish, out and about, restaurants, temples, travel

  Who’s the Fei-est of Them All?

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’ve partaken in a few food challenges in my life. The first, when I was 15, was at summer camp, when I decided to eat as much pizza at dinner as I could (final tally: 9 slices). The next summer, in the rural Costa Rican mountains, a woman had prepared a local meal for [...]

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• chicken, cooking, entrees, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, unruly chefs

  Arroz By Any Other Name

  05.20.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Erik’s Chinese Peruvian Arroz con Pollo

  Two chicken breasts, two chicken legs
  Salt, pepper, cumin
  2 teaspoons (ish) grated ginger
  Olive oil
  Diced pork, about a hand full
  5-6 cloves crushed/minced garlic
  ½ large yellow onion, finely diced
  Cilantro, about one bunch
  Spinach, about one Chinese bundle (maybe 4 cups?)
  1 really large carrot, finely diced
  1 ear of corn, kernels separated from stalk
  Some form of [...]

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• Parks, Shanghai, animals, chicken, dessert, fish, mysterious ingredients, restaurants, temples, travel

  Maternal Instincts

  05.18.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  There are a lot of reasons people have kids— to continue the family name, to give and create life, to get that bangin’ minivan they’ve always wanted. But I think my parents had a unique vision: have a kid, raise her to be independent, and get her to move to China so we can go [...]

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• Parks, animals, chicken, entrees, headaches, holidays, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Hangzhou: The City of Cibola

  04.08.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “We’re getting close now,” said Joe for the eighth time as we entered the dark, restaurant-bereft residential area where Jennifer and I had been a mere two hours before.

  It was eight o’clock on Sunday night in Hangzhou and Joe, who has lived in the neighborhood for eight months, claimed to know where he was. Yet [...]

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• amuse bouche, animals, chicken

  Which Came First?

  03.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Look what I found in my eggs:

  Alert the FDA–this obviously came from a LIVING ANIMAL, ohmygod, I’m going to die.

  And I’ve been ‘reunited,’ as such.

  Many many thanks to my mom and dad, who bought it for me and went through hell and lots of money to ship it across the Pacific.
  My right pointer finger is [...]

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• Gerald, Parks, animals, chicken, entrees, musings, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Deja Vu on LSD

  02.21.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When a city has a close proximity to the Silk Road, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar/Burma and the rest of Southeast Asia, a history that dates back to 279 BCE and later includes a visit from Marco Polo, has been a major market, communication, military, and transport center, and has a (comparatively) large Chinese Minority presence, I [...]

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• Gerald, chicken, entrees, holidays, out and about, road trippin', travel

  Go South, Young (Wo)Man

  01.14.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In my opinion, there are two injustices in this world: calories and winter. Why can’t we just eat as much as we want without suffering the physical consequences? And why can’t we do so wearing flip-flops and t-shirts year-round?

  Winter is, at least in theory, escapable, while calories are not (though I’m sure the Splenda lab [...]

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• amuse bouche, animals, chicken, entrees, huzhou, mysterious ingredients

  It’s What’s For Dinner

  12.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

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