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Gerald

• America, Gerald, Shanghai

  Going East Back to the West

  08.29.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  When I was getting ready to come to China, a lot of people remarked on how adventurous I was to move to CHINA, and were my parents okay with that, and why would you move THERE? I think a lot of people saw that as a brave and scary choice. But let me tell you, [...]

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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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• Gerald, cooking, home cooking, huzhou

  Extra Sharp

  11.16.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I can hardly believe that this wasn’t my idea:

  But the idea man behind buttering two pieces of bread and melting some cheese between them (Edam and cheddar, if you’re curious, Gerald) deserves credit, as well as a spot on the Plate of Wander cast of characters.
  Meet George.

  He doesn’t smile in photographs.
  I think the last time [...]

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• Gerald, Shanghai, dessert, musings

  Chalk A Lot

  09.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The summer before I started high school, I was assigned my very first summer reading list. On it was Dickens’ Great Expectations. I knew reading that book was going to be an epic battle of the will when, on the first page, I encountered the word ‘vittles.’ I asked my dad what it meant. He [...]

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• Gerald, dessert, huzhou, less food-related

  The Laowai Menagerie

  08.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  [Bei(jing)of Pigs Invasion parts IV and V coming soon to a theater near you]
  CURTAIN RISES

  SCENE I

  Haoshibao gym, late Tuesday afternoon. The workout area is busy—both elliptical machines are in use and only one or two of the treadmills are unoccupied. Loud, obnoxious, generally brain- disintegrating ‘music’ rattles from the confines of the glass-enclosed spinning room, [...]

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• America, Gerald, holidays, huzhou, less food-related, travel

  Hu-ville

  07.16.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I was intending to take advantage of fast, unblocked Internet to update a lot during my visit home. Things were said, promises made. But then I got there and I couldn’t really think of anything to take pictures of or write about. I mostly spent time revisiting my American habits.

  My good friend Rachel and I [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, housecleaning, huzhou, less food-related, mysterious ingredients, travel

  The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends

  04.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t hide my emotions very well. One night in Beijing, I was out to dinner with my usual group of friends plus two other classmates, one of whom I did not like. He happened to be sitting next to me. I carried the whole thing off brilliantly, maintaining decorum and civility. I’m an [...]

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• Gerald, animals, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, out and about, travel

  Infinity and Beyond

  03.23.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The town of Yangshuo is where tourists go to get away from the tourists in Guilin. But the village of Xingping is where travelers go to get away from the tourists in Yangshuo, so Gerald and I opted to go to Xingping.

  Xingping is most famous for this:

  That is the back of the twenty yuan [...]

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• Gerald, Uncategorized, animals, entrees, out and about, travel

  When Life Gives You Limestone…

  03.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  There was a golf course next to the famous Three Pagodas in Dali.

  How can I respect that?

  So I’m going to skip over Dali, where Gerald and I spent two nights after staying in Lijiang. Dali was nice, but not as spectacular as Lijiang and it has a golf course. It’s not remarkable enough for its [...]

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

  Luke, Ich Bin Dein Vater

  03.11.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I’ve mentioned before that Gerald and I consider ourselves travelers, not tourists, but sometimes we stop taking ourselves so seriously and make concessions. Well, it was that time again, that time when we open our wallets and pray that those red hundreds we throw to the wind will yield something Worth Seeing.

  Since we chose to [...]

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