Wanting to return a favor for providing cardboard moving boxes, Greg and Candice asked what they could do in return. Peikwen suggested a home-cooked double date. These days, I find home-cooked meals a truly, dear currency and something we can all consider doing more. I am looking forward to a [...]
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中国，广东，梅县-世界上各民族散居的现象总是让人称奇。正是世界人口流动的方便性，我们会发现自己呆在一个国家时却像生活在地球村，甚至有时候感觉生活在月球上。今天我访问的家庭是中国人，来自广东客家族。他们曾经从中国移民到印度尼西亚，而他们的后人如今分布在世界各地：有一部分移民到美国去了，还有一部分像招待我的主人-82岁的温婆一样，最后又回到了中国居住。
I’m half Filipino from my mother’s side, and my other half is mostly Danish American. I like to talk about my family a lot on this site because a lot of things in life I associate with my family. There are a lot of things our parents try to teach us, but when you’re young [...]
Continue Reading →I live in Beijing; my neighborhood is a concrete jungle and there are no plots to muse a community garden anywhere in sight. I’m really starting to want my own garden, right about now. I regret how much I took my parents’ garden for granted. What [...]
Continue Reading →To answer a fellow tweeter’s question, yes, the Beijing IKEA also serves Swedish Meatballs.
Smirk if you will, but during my trip to IKEA for organization boxes and pantry containers, I envisioned a calm day at the IKEA cafeteria. As I left my [...]
Continue Reading →Shanghai, China — Brunch just before flying back to Beijing.
Quite possibly my last shrimp meal with mystery origins. Why? Answer
New location in Shanghai, next door to the Starbucks at THE PORTMAN RITZ-CARLTON SHANGHAI 邮政编码:
Nanjing Xi Lu, Shanghai, China, 200040
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Shanghai, CHINA — Lunch at a restaurant serving Shanghai cuisine
Grandma’s Red Braised Pork Belly (外婆红烧肉, Wàipó Hóng Shāo ròu) — The flavor was right, it looked perfect, but it didn’t fall apart, melt in my mouth, or make me believe I’d died [...]
Continue Reading →Happy New Year! 新年快乐!
Happy 2010 and happy year of the Tiger! Through the ShowShanti project, I have visited 17 families in 2009. I look forward to bridging more relationships with families in China, learning their favorite recipes.
Wishing everyone a successful year [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been tacking things together within ShowShanti, rearchitecting the content and hoping to bring about a blog with more information, better organized. If these are the types of puzzles one should do to sharpen their mind, then I hope I’m on track.
New features:
China Regions Tab – [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes I think I have too many rules, but when I read manifestos like Bruce Buschel‘s “One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1),” I can’t help but fully embrace another 100 more. Here [...]
Continue Reading →Like shopping in the dessert aisle while hungry, I browse my way through cyberspace to my friend’s site, Funfeasts. Lately, my thoughts have been all about the savory, but I landed on a post to give my taste buds some balance. I think it’s time I treat [...]
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