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I wasn’t sure what to expect food-wise when I arrived in Taiwan. I knew whatever we found would be delicious — but what would we find? I’ve already regaled you with our day of eating in Tainan, but I left out the most intriguing part — breakfast! Naturally, it came in two stages, starting with [...]
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In Tainan, our last stop in Taiwan, we had the luckiest break of our trip: My roommate’s dad’s coworker’s brother (convoluted much?) is a Tainan native and quite a foodie, and he gave us an amazing 24-hour tour of the city’s cuisine. To give you a sense of the variety of food on offer in [...]
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In my new busy-student lifestyle, any trip downtown must be made the most of! So when we planned to go downtown for an event at a new bar two weeks ago, we knew we wanted to seize the opportunity to have a delicious meal, too. A bit of Internet research led me to Da Gui, [...]
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I may not be traveling much these days (the next trip on the calendar is not till October, poor me), so for posting-inspiration today, I’m turning to my Chinese textbook. Our first lesson in “listening class” concerned the famous foods of Beijing. A Taiwanese teacher was asking a teacher from Beijing for his tips on [...]
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This week, I’m turning the spotlight on Guizhou, one of China’s least-famous provinces. Read my introduction to Guizhou and then subscribe to my RSS feed to automatically receive the rest of the posts in the series! Guizhou has all the staples of Chinese cuisine — noodles, hotpot — but puts its own distinctive hot-and-sour spin [...]
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ST. PETERSBURG — We’ve been making pretty good progress on our checklist of Russian foods to try: blini, pelmeni, borscht and vareniki have all been crossed. Tonight we ventured south — culinarily speaking — to Georgia, the former Soviet Republic in the Caucasus. We were following a lead from the New York Times to Khinkalnaya-Khachapurnaya, [...]
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SIBERIA — As you cross time zones and borders on the Trans-Mongolian, the days blur together and it is easy to forget where you are, exactly. One way to remind yourself is to visit the dining car, which changes at every border. You eat in a Chinese dining car while in China, a Mongolian car [...]
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Tonight, I’ll leave Changsha for the last time — at least until I return to visit. After two years teaching at Hunan University, I’m moving on to my next adventure. I’m excited for where I’m heading, but of course I’ll also miss Changsha. In addition to friends, both Chinese and American, I’ll miss: Lushan Nanlu: [...]
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It’s 7 p.m. and you’re stranded outside a train station somewhere in China. You need a cheap, filling meal before you hop on the next overnight train. But all of the nearby restaurants only have Chinese menus, with nary a picture menu nor English translation to be found. What to do? My new Chinese menu [...]
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I had two ulterior motives when I made plans to go to Beijing to meet a friend making her first visit to China. The first, hiking the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simitai, you’ll hear about on Wednesday. The second was the divine dumpling restaurant Xian Lao Man, perhaps my favorite place to eat in China. Their dumplings were our [...]
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