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• 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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• Parks, beijing, entrees, home cooking, less food-related, travel

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part V

  09.02.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For some reason, I’ve never been particularly good at history. I say ‘for some reason’ because I consider myself a story teller (through words and/or pictures). And though history is one big story, it goes in one ear and out the other. It’s not that I don’t find it interesting, it’s that I can’t remember [...]

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• KFC, Parks, beijing, travel

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part IV

  08.16.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I was trying to think of a clever way to start out this post, maybe by providing an interesting piece of trivia or…I don’t know, something salient to reel you in. In Googling ‘2008 olympics interesting stories’ (I know, aren’t I the pro Googler), I came across this little excerpt from the article 2008 [...]

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• KFC, beijing, dessert, entrees, restaurants, travel

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part III

  08.10.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The premise of fasting has always baffled and intimidated me. Some people dread getting those ‘Congrats you’re 50!’ colonoscopies because of discomfort—I dread the fast the day before. Celebrity fasts and cleanses? Hunger strikes? I don’t think so. While part of me admires the willpower of people who successfully starve themselves out of religion [...]

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• Parks, beijing, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, restaurants, travel

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part II

  08.07.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  “Eat some more bread. Eat some more vegetables. Do you want milk? Eat some more meat.”

  Tianqi’s mom took the raisin bread from my hands, pulled the mini-loaf apart with her hands, and stuck pork slices inside. I didn’t even know I wanted a sandwich, but what a brilliant idea.

  “Haochi ma?” [Is it good?] she asked [...]

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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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