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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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• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, entrees, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, road trippin', travel

  Digestive Default

  04.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  One of the pleasures of traveling is returning to a place for a second time. The Local Way is no longer a grand mystery, and the place is likely not yet so familiar that The Local Way becomes the norm. So stepping off the plane in Kuala Lumpur, I felt just a little bit superior, [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Making a KL-ing

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Travel is all about doing new things, meeting people you never knew existed, seeing things you’d never even thought of. People, I have had a Kuala Lumpur revelation: I have seen fresh baby corn. For real! Who knew that stuff didn’t naturally grow in cans? Not I!

  Kuala Lumpur is not, in my opinion, a special [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mosques, dessert, entrees, fish, out and about, travel

  Go South, Young (Wo)Man, 2010 Edition

  01.20.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  If the question “Where has ellis gone for her 5-week adventure?” has been plaguing you since I mentioned it a few days ago, well, your day of respite has come. Unless I told you. Or you saw my update on Facebook, which I can, for better or worse, access for the trip’s duration. So, where [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, out and about, pizza, restaurants, travel

  Menage a Fromage

  01.13.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  From what I hear, love is a complicated thing. I haven’t had the fortune (or misfortune?) of being in actual love, though I hope I haven’t missed the boat at my old age. Especially when one is not in love with anyone, it can be tough, or even sickening, to be around two people who [...]

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• Parks, cooking, huzhou, out and about, students

  A Chicken On Every Stick

  12.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I tend to make my job significantly more stressful than it should be, especially since I teach a whopping 12 hours a week. Instead I’m haunted by constant doubt that my class is evenly remotely interesting and that I’m teaching my kids anything at all. There are some days, walking up the steps to the [...]

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• less food-related, out and about

  Fierce…?

  12.08.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  This is why Tyra would kick me off America’s Next Top Model:

  (Though I might penalize the photographer for shooting from an angle that make my hips look HUGE and make me look like a giant.)
  I have one look.

  And I don’t do it particularly well. Just what is in the upper corners of an elevator?

  Though let’s [...]

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• Shanghai, Thanksgiving, animals, entrees, holidays, out and about, restaurants

  Generous George and the Eight Chinchilla Souls

  11.22.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Most holidays that last longer than a day require some sort of fasting or deprivation. Passover: no leavened bread. Lent: Give something up. Ramadan: Fast all day. Off the top of my head, I can think of two exceptions: Hanukkah, in its eight latke-filled days and nights, and Thanksgiving.
  At the moment you may be [...]

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• Chinese, entrees, huzhou, less food-related, out and about, restaurants

  Elevator Pitch

  11.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It was bound to happen sometime.
  Hi Ellis, this is Apple from web. Would u mind doing me a favour? My friend’s company in Nanxun need to take some pic. Of 2 foreigners, which will be put on their poster. Well would u like to be the girl model? Coz u r the prettiest foreign girl [...]

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• Jeju, Korea, Seoul, fish, markets, mysterious ingredients, out and about, travel

  Reseoulution

  11.12.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I know what you were thinking: Finally. She’s done posting Korea photos. I mean, she’s posting about oatmeal, for Mao’s sake, she must be through with the endless Seoul puns and nearly identical pictures of pickled spicy cabbage.
  Well, you were wrong. But at least my puns aren’t this bad:

  I spent my last hours on [...]

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