In less than 24 hours, I’ll be home. Well, not home, but you get the point. I’ve already been in airports so many times this year. I’ve been exhausted, scrambling to make my flights to other cities in China or to Hong Kong,…
Climbing the Great Wall and other things that make you a man.
The smell of Beijing is unmistakable. It’s the smell of resin, cigarettes, and motor exhaust, and it hits you, hard, as soon as you step into the Beijing Capital Airport. It’s been more than a year since I’ve last been to China’s…
Life Abroad: What I expected and what really happened
Living in a foreign place never turns out the way you would have thought it to have turned out. And right now, I’m panicking. Hard. In about two weeks, I’m flying back to the U.S. for the first time in almost a year. It’s…
To fall in love with anyone, eat street food
I’m so excited to share my contribution to Snacks Quarterly for the their newest issue! http://www.snacksquarterly.com/to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-eat-street-food/ More about my struggles with writing: Shanghainese street food. What it’s like to write.
Returning to Hong Kong
We left our hotel room in the People’s Republic of China at 9am. By 11:15am, we had crossed the border and we inside the Hong Kong Disneyland. The Disneyland Resort is an oasis within an oasis. Even getting to the park is the sort…
The one where I take on Huashan Hospital (once more) and live to tell the tale
Walking into a Chinese hospital is never a pleasant experience. There’s always something to throw you off – whether it’s the process of sardine-squeezing into at least three elevators before your find one without an overload sign, or being asked to carry…