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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 [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

• Chinese, fish, huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai

  The Waiguo Ren Returns

  11.04.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  > You know, I meant to mention here that I would be off to China very, very soon. Well, surprise!

  

• America, restaurants

  The Heart of Darkness

  09.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The day my Wellesley acceptance letter came in the mail, I ran out to the mailbox barefoot and, I think, opened the letter out in the street. I ran back inside to tell my dad, who was about as anxious as I was. Then I called my grandparents, Nana and Papa, and while I was [...]

  

• America, pizza, restaurants

  Why Is This Pizza Different From All Other Pizzas?

  08.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “Citizen Kane” is widely asserted to be the Greatest Movie Ever Made. The first time I saw “Citizen Kane,” I had fairly high expectations, but ended up bored out of my mind. It was a let down. I wanted to be wowed and blown away. I wanted it to ruin all other movies for me, [...]

  

• America, restaurants, road trippin', TLMERwBPJN

  TLMERw/BPJN Part II

  07.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Amnesia is a very popular twist in soap opera story lines—Teresa has amnesia and, unable to remember that she is in love with Ethan, falls in love with Ethan’s father, etc. The first time I remember learning about amnesia was an episode of “Lois and Clark: Adventures of Superman” when I was but a child. [...]

  

• America, restaurants, road trippin', TLMERwBPJN

  Thelma & Louise Meets Easy Rider without Brad Pitt or Jack Nicholson (TLMERwBPJN), part I

  07.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The town of Wellesley is a small, upscale suburb for rich, white, middle-aged trophy wives. The college campus is the beginning (or the end, depending how you come) of the main street. It’s a bit odd that The Gap, the bookstore, and the CVS are the only places of interest to a student. A bus [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

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