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travel

• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, cake, dessert, entrees, fish, road trippin', travel

  Canons of KL

  04.21.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Dear Blogger’s Block,
  You are harder to lose than the last few pounds from the Malaysia trip—you know, the one I’m trying to write about. The one you’re prohibiting me from writing about by completely overstaying your welcome.
  I expect you to come when Huzhou life has reached its predictable static lull, when life is nothing but [...]

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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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• Singapore, fish, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Fly Me to the Moon

  03.30.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I’ve never considered myself to have an addictive personality. There’s pretty much nothing I can’t live without, though when it comes to living without, say, pretty much any food group, I question the definition of ‘living.’ The things we think of first when we think of addiction—smoking, drinking, drugs, video games—have never really appealed to [...]

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• Cambodia, entrees, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Running Amok

  03.23.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  When I try to picture Cambodia conceptually, like on a map or as an overall mishmash of purple, trees, dirt, bricks, and green, I usually ‘see’ it as tucked neatly away under Thailand and Laos, or through a veil of netting—not quite clear, and hidden and out of the way. Cambodia has seemed, and [...]

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• Singapore, cooking, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, travel

  In My Head I’m Gone

  03.17.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  One might think that after 5 weeks of non-stop travel, and not the resort kind, that one would be ready to get home and get back into the groove, back to the familiarity and the friends and beds and bathrooms of established quality.
  Well one might be wrong.
  There. I said it. WRONG.
  Because actually, I didn’t (don’t?) [...]

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• beijing, housecleaning, travel

  The Bird is on the Wing

  03.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I really hate blog posts that apologize for a dearth of posts, and yet I stand before you making that very mea culpa. I realize excuses are for the weak or lazy or something, but:
  1. Illness in Cambodia, hospital in Bangkok.
  2. Whirlwind in Singapore and unwilling return to Huzhou.
  3. Trying to make the switch from [...]

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• Cambodia, Parks, less food-related, temples, travel

  Encore Wat

  02.22.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  It’s kind of hard to write about what it’s like to see one of the wonders of the world in person. I mean, I can think of plenty of blah-blah adjectives like magnificent, spectacular, breathtaking, humbling, powerful, stunning, unforgettable. But what do all of those really meant? They’re essentially pretty-sounding synonyms for “Whoa, cool.”

  As we [...]

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• Bangkok, Cambodia, Thailand, headaches, less food-related, road trippin', travel

  East of the Border, South of the Sun

  02.16.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “The train to Bangkok is never late,” he promised.
  Of course we were the ones who decided to take the risk of buying tickets for a bus that left 90 minutes after our train arrived in Bangkok. But we had read a lot about crossing from Thailand to Cambodia over land, and it didn’t sound [...]

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• Thailand, animals, entrees, headaches, travel

  Promises and Pachydermal Proboscides

  02.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout my few years of travel, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things: pineapples grow in the ground. Smile innocently at your waiter in Italy and you’ll get free drinks whether you wanted them or not. In the Costa Rican forest, that huge thing you think is a tree is technically a vine. Jaguars will [...]

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