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• 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 [...]

  

• beijing, Chinese, less food-related

  Live Tape-Delay Blogging the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

  08.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  6.55 PM- What better way to celebrate the start of the Olympics than a Chinese meal of Bok Choy, Mapo Tofu, and, the Olympics’ ‘Official Dish,’ Kung Pao Chicken? 6.58- here comes President Bush! Well, now we can get started! 7- 2,008 drummers! Look how shimmery they are…. I wonder how much those drummers are [...]

  

• America, beijing, Chinese, cooking, fish, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  You Are What You Ate

  07.24.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  In 2006, I spent 5 weeks in Florence, Italy for a film program. My best friend Rachel and I had signed up together, and Team Relish (as we called ourselves) took the film school by storm. One hot, bright Saturday, we spent the whole mid-July morning and then some filming Rachel’s film, which required a [...]

  

• Chinese, restaurants

  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

  07.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When I was looking at and applying to college in high school, people told me “college is the best time of your life” so many times, I started to believe it. I thought it was another overused-but-scarily-true clichés, like “a fool and his money are soon parted” (in which case every person who pays for [...]

  

• Chinese, cooking

  There’s Nothing Like Eating with Chopsticks

  06.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m just going to get this whole thing started without any introduction. So consider that sentence as your greeting—just follow along and you’ll catch on pretty fast. There are a lot of upsides to being done with college, the biggest being that it’s over. My school and I had a rather turbulent relationship, and I [...]

  

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