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• America, Boston, Chinese, entrees, restaurants, Tofu, travel

  Winter is a Dish Best Served at Taiwan Cafe

  03.04.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  For the past week I was in Boston, going through internet withdrawal (is anyone else flabbergasted by in-room internet for $13 a day?), appreciating the cold and winter I don’t have to live with, and wandering the streets on both sides of the Charles, drifting along the streets I used to walk so often during [...]

  

• America, amuse bouche, animals, less food-related, out and about

  Amuse Bouche: A $20 Beetle Landing

  02.28.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  At the Garlic Festival in Delray Beach the other week, this was the most interesting thing that happened (though we didn’t try the garlic ice cream): For ten dollars per person at the gate, one would have thought that the landing of a Coccinellid on a t-shirt would not be something to overshadow the actual [...]

  

• America, Balloons, florida, less food-related, out and about

  Culture of Hijinks

  02.16.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Marrying a balloon artist is a bit like navigating a whole new country, a country that smells vaguely of latex, where one finds balloons of various degrees of inflation in pockets, cars, suitcases, and on the ground or floor. The sudden, unexpected ear-splitting pops are not warring gunfire but balloons breaking. And the natives are [...]

  

• America, butter, entrees, fish, florida, florida restaurants, restaurants, Shanghai, weekend nom

  Weekend Nom: Havana Hideout

  02.13.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sometimes when I’m bored, I like to play a game: What would I eat right now if I were in China? Usually the answer is eggplant, Sichuan, Muslim, tofu—ok well I’d eat pretty much any Chinese food. When I was living in China I used to play this game but change it to What would [...]

  

• America, beijing, huzhou, less food-related, MEAT, musings, Reverse Culture Shock, Shanghai, teaching

  In-CAR-ceration

  02.11.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  When I taught college in Huzhou, I used to do a unit on the stages of life: baby, toddler, kid, adolescent, teenager, adult, etc. I used to also teach my students the ages that Americans could drive, buy cigarettes, vote, and drink. They were always amazed that the drinking age is 21, as there is [...]

  

• America, MEAT, Reverse Culture Shock, Tofu

  SOS: Save Our Soy

  02.04.11 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  One of the hardest aspects of re-acclimating to life in America has been getting reacquainted with the carnivorous tendencies of my mother culture. I’m not a vegetarian; I never could be. I love burgers and ribs and chicken and all that fleshy, juicy complete protein. But it seems to me that our culture is a [...]

  

• America, less food-related

  Shock, Culture, Reverse.

  02.02.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  It is with a sheepish enthusiasm that I return, at last, to Plate of Wander. It has now been almost 4 full months since I left China and began my life in Florida. Florida. I had never been to Florida prior to moving here, but I thought of it as another adventure, another frontier yet [...]

  

• America, Gerald, Shanghai

  Going East Back to the West

  08.29.10 | Permalink | 7 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, [...]

  

• America, dessert, entrees, Malaysia, mysterious ingredients, Penang, 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 [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

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