It’s not Thanksgiving in China until you bring the turkey legs you bought online to the butcher shop across the street, because they do not fit in the slow-cooker. It’s not really Thanksgiving until the lady in the butcher shop…
Every thing I saw in Seoul
Seoul is entrancing, bizarre, slightly unnerving. There are streets lined with plastic surgery clinics, vaginal rejuvenation centers, so many K-Beauty shops, and bomb shelters. It’s an unusual dichotomy, because the city is so unnaturally alive, but also in imminent danger….
How to get to the DMZ (and get back safely)
There are two security checkpoints at the DMZ. We take out our passports and an armed guard verifies them against the passport numbers we provided at the start of the morning. He gives a salute to our van driver, who…
Cold beer and Korean BBQ
I get off the train of Hongkik University and the first thing I notice is how good it smells. Seriously, there’s an entire two block stretch that smells like sweet buttermilk biscuits, Cajun fries, and fried chicken. There’s a small…
Finding a job is a just like dating
“I have a feeling that you’d be good at taking notes” “We liked you, even though you are a blonde” I’ve been looking for a new job the last few months, both hurriedly and not at all. In July, I…
“It’s really not that spicy!” and other things people told me in Chengdu
The week before I left Shanghai was dizzying. The roof of our old Shanghainese house gave in to the typhoon rains and water poured into our apartment in three places, flooding the floor. The rain triggered the circuit breaker and…