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• America, Kashgar, less food-related, out and about, travel

  Junkyards and Uighur Bagels

  05.07.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In February, my parents went to Byromville, Georgia to attend the funeral of my mother’s uncle, Haessler, and to attend to his estate. After much goading and persuasion, my father has written a guest post about Byromville, and he took some pretty nice shots to go with it. So everyone, please welcome the man who [...]

  

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

  Winter is a Dish Best Served at Taiwan Cafe

  03.04.11 | Permalink | 3 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 [...]

  

• entrees, Hanoi, travel, Vietnam

  Getting Hanoi’d

  02.08.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  As a last Asia-hurrah, John and I decided to take a two-week trip to Vietnam in September before our return back to the States. We figured, why return home with money with Vietnam so close by? We don’t have to be practical for at least a few more years! Getting there wasn’t a problem, but [...]

  

• less food-related, Shanghai, travel

  Coming and Going

  09.27.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I hope to live out my life as a series of comings and goings, which are really the same things, and this week is my time of leaving and arriving. Though my decision to leave was peppered with the guilt of leaving my job, my cutie kindergartners, and my friends, it is the right one. [...]

  

• cake, dessert, entrees, fish, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, 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 [...]

  

• chicken, entrees, fish, Malacca, Malaysia, 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 [...]

  

• entrees, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, 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, [...]

  

• fish, mysterious ingredients, Singapore, 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 [...]

  

• 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 seems [...]

  

• cooking, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, Singapore, 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, [...]

  

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