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• 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 [...]

  

• Chinese, entrees, huzhou, less food-related, out and about, restaurants

  Elevator Pitch

  11.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It was bound to happen sometime. Hi Ellis, this is Apple from web. Would u mind doing me a favour? My friend’s company in Nanxun need to take some pic. Of 2 foreigners, which will be put on their poster. Well would u like to be the girl model? Coz u r the prettiest foreign [...]

  

• fish, Jeju, Korea, markets, mysterious ingredients, out and about, Seoul, 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 [...]

  

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

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part II

  08.07.09 | Permalink | 5 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?] [...]

  

• fish, huzhou, less food-related

  And the Emmy For Best Foreigner Goes To…

  12.26.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “I saw you on TV,” said the woman who paints my nails. Oh, no. I was really hoping they wouldn’t air that. There’s nothing like a foreigner to send the local news media scrambling. Forget the actual news; a tall foreigner walks into the room and it doesn’t matter if Mao is holding a dumpling [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

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