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Road Trip Alert: Southeast China This Month

I just found out I’m on my way to China again! I’ll be spending the end of July (and maybe into August) in southeast China, in Guangdong (Canton) Province. First stop: Hong Kong, one of my all-time favorite cities. Yes, it’s summertime there too, and quite muggy if memory serves. But heck, it can’t [...]

Book of the Month: Beyond the Great Wall

If you’re looking for a collection of Chinese recipes that is beautiful enough, both in contents and appearance, then have I got a book for you:

Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China

The authors, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, are experienced global voyagers and their previous books prove they know [...]

Friday Follies: Toss Another Camel on the Barbie

The camel is a noble beast. The Three Wise Men probably searched for the infant Jesus while perched on camels. We even had them here in Texas. A recent study in Australia, though, adds a new chapter to the camel’s checkered history.

It’s time to eat them!

I know, camels have been more than simply transportation in [...]

More Friday Follies V: Beer, Beer, Beer!

Norwalk, CA

A 74 year-old woman drove her 1988 Cadillac through the front of a convenience store recently. I guess that’s not much news. What she did next, however, is:

She staggered out of the wreckage, shouted “I’m here for beer!” and wobbled over to the cooler to grab a six of Budweiser. When she reached the [...]

More Malaysian: Fish Curry and Mee Goreng

Malaysia has an advantageous geographic position, as far as food influences go. For the last many centuries, travelers going north and south have used the peninsula to travel from China and Indochina to Indonesia and beyond. Those traders and travelers going east-west have had to deal with this long reach of land in their road. [...]