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• headaches, huzhou, less food-related, unruly chefs

  Hu’s There? The Jasmine Revolution

  03.10.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I originally wrote this poem, a tribute to Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, when I was living in Huzhou back in 2009, just after the riots in Xinjiang catapulted the region into instability and shut down most of the Internet in China. Plate of Wander was, for a time, blocked, along with many [...]

  

• huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai, students, teaching

  Revival

  08.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Daytime soaps deliberately leave the greatest cliffhangers for Friday so that the viewer must suffer through the weekend wondering just who is the father of Theresa’s baby or if Louis will ever find out that poor Sheridan is locked in Beth’s basement and that the baby Beth is ‘pregnant’ with is, in fact, a sack [...]

  

• Balloons, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching

  Latex Bribery

  06.01.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Teaching, I imagine, has quite a few similarities to parenting. Parents see their kids at home acting out, letting manners slip, saying and doing things they would never do around others. Then when they’re out in the world, they’re prefect angels and parents are like, “What? My kid?” Last week I had the bittersweet pleasure [...]

  

• amuse bouche, From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching

  On Lady Gaga and Enlightenment

  05.20.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Since my brain has been bled pretty dry in terms of lesson plan ideas, I had my kids make dialogues in class today. Little did I know it was time for the teacher to become the student. In three separate dialogues, the kids exclaimed, “Oh my Lady Gaga!” This is new, red hot catch phrase [...]

  

• huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai

  The Bird of Time Has But a Little Way to Fly

  04.27.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  If you’ve studied your Plate of Wander history, you know that Huzhou has not been the easiest place to live. I’ve known it was time to leave for quite a few months now. And now that the school year is about 6 weeks away from ending, my official clock is counting down. Though Huzhou has [...]

  

• 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, [...]

  

• beijing, housecleaning, travel

  The Bird is on the Wing

  03.03.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I really hate blog posts that apologize for a dearth of posts, and yet I stand before you making that very mea culpa. I realize excuses are for the weak or lazy or something, but: 1. Illness in Cambodia, hospital in Bangkok. 2. Whirlwind in Singapore and unwilling return to Huzhou. 3. Trying to make [...]

  

• Christmas, holidays, less food-related, students, teaching

  ******mas

  12.30.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Chinese people like to compare Christmas to Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, the Chinese Holiday of holidays. Over Spring Festival, big cities are abandoned as people go home to see their families. Even in Beijing, which is renowned for its abysmal traffic, the streets are empty. All over the country businesses close, train tickets [...]

  

• huzhou, less food-related, musings

  The Sound of Intimidation

  12.17.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  On the road that leads into the downtown district, right where the traffic starts to get heavy, there’s a place called Fumiao. Or rather, a place that used to be Fumiao. Until June it was a warehouse of stalls, where one could by anything from candles, clothes, and motorcycle helmets to plates, bedding, and suitcases. [...]

  

• cooking, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes

  The Huzhou Food Jew is a Lonely Eater

  12.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If anyone in my life has influenced my cooking, it would be my paternal grandmother, Nana. Both my mother and father are good cooks, but with the triple whammy of an ultra-picky daughter, working, and, you know, raising two kids, they didn’t have a lot of time to devote to culinary endeavors until I was [...]

  

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