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mysterious ingredients

• 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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• America, Malaysia, Penang, dessert, entrees, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Double Negative

  02.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Life is hard when you’re on vacation in Malaysia.
  First, you cannot find the motivation to put up another blog post. You also cannot live up to the one that preceded it.

  There are a lot of other restrictions on what you can do in Penang.

  Even in the winter, it’s too hot to wear a lot of [...]

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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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• amuse bouche, mysterious ingredients

  Hebrewed to Perfection

  01.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  And here I was thinking there was nothing Jewish in Huzhou.

  I was just looking in the wrong aisle!

  The Jew’s Ear includes protein, iron, calcium, phosphorous, vitamins, vegetable collagen, as well as many kinds of amino acids. This product was made from Auricularia Auricula-judae (Jew’s Ear) fetched from its ecological environment in the polar forest [...]

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• Christmas, baking, butter, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  The Bun Also Rises

  12.27.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Every year for Thanksgiving, my family and I headed out to the desert for a potluck lunch with my grandparents’ friends and their families. Though the location changed a few times, we were always out in the desert, eating turkey and hiking and playing volleyball.
  Every year one of my grandmother’s good friends, Susan, would [...]

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• Thanksgiving, baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes, unruly chefs

  Bitter Batter, Butter Biscuits

  11.26.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A long time ago in a galaxy far far away before my mother and father married (or perhaps it was just after), my mother roasted a chicken for dinner. Maybe she was trying to impress my dad, maybe they had guests over for dinner; the details of this have always been a bit muddy to [...]

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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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