A Blog about everything weird that happens while you eat
Snapped from a taxi near Jing’an temple. Not a rare sight here…well, this pile was bigger than usual. Much much bigger.
I think this trike’s loaded with fish crates. I’m guessing they’re empty now and she’s on her way to recycle them. Peggy Liu from JUCCCE told me that China has 1/4th the consumption per capita [...]
Whiling away a breezy Saturday on our balcony with a cocktail, watching bad tennis and even worse driving decisions. It was had to not heckle the Tennis players, but even harder to leave the driver alone.
We’ve managed to eat at every restaurant at the city shop complex on Tianyaqiao Lu and Xingeng Lu, except the Applebees, Babydoll–a restaurant apparently geared specifically for Girls’ Night Out–and Kissho of Tokyo.
Here are some tips, from me to you, to help you learn how to avoid the landmines of surprise and dissappointment you may [...]
In Shanghai, there are rare moments of peace. Rarer still are moments of peace that I manage to photograph well.
At Las Tapas, visiting for a late Lunch gets you a quiet, 1/3rd full restaurant and a tasty and reasonably priced set meal. The mackerel was excellent, but skip the potato salad in favor of the soup [...]
We are two of the few people who move into an unfurnished apartment in China. The housing system works such that every building is a condoplex, and slumlords buy up apartments and rent them, furnished, to the plebes, for massive profit. This system has it’s benefits–no one really loses money when the system demands [...]
Girlie went on a grand business adventure to Xi’an and Chon Qing, which she summed up in this adorable bit of an email:
Could I put in a special request for comfort food and perhaps even a beer? ”Comfort food” in this context would be anything home-cooked that does not involve any of the following, all of which [...]
So there’s this contraption under our stove. When Girlie first looked through the apartment, she understandably mistook it as an oven.
I opened it up after we moved in and noticed the racks were oddly shaped, and there were little plastic wheels–two things that roasting pans don’t need. So I assumed it was a dishwasher, and [...]
There’s a saying in Mandarin that truly encapsulates Chinese New Year: Heat and Noise (熱鬧 – rè nao). A Mandarin speaker will translate this as liveliness or excitement, but the literal translation is more fun and more elucidating to me. My introduction to Chinese New Year was via Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street so [...]
Girlie and I went to the LiuJiabang lu fabric market last night to visit her favorite tailor and have a look around. She’d not visited at night before, so we were both excited to find the streets around the market were buzzing.