I'm so excited I can barely sit still. While most of America was out shopping today on Black Friday (the kick-off to winter holiday gift buying), I relaxed at home with two of my three kids and some good friends (my older son is in the city with Lao Lao, the Chinese name for … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Hong Kong style
As I clean the house before 24 relatives descend upon our small kitchen tomorrow, I can't help but think back to celebrating Thanksgiving abroad.Twenty years ago I spent my first overseas Thanksgiving. I was studying at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (photo on left) and … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
When I read about Eileen Chang's translation (with much editing from Eva Hung) of The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (Columbia University Press, 2007) by Han Bangqing, I naturally added it to my list of books to read. And that's what I finished last week.I was interested in … [Read more...]
Macao dining room, Sheraton Chicago
Yesterday I posted a card from the Saigon dining room in the old Sheraton Chicago. Today I found a postcard of another dining room in the kitschy Kon-Tiki Ports concept, also at the Sheraton Chicago.Meet Macao.I'm enthralled by the dark, opium den/Chinese curio shop … [Read more...]
Kon-Tiki Ports, Chicago
There's so much going on in this postcard, I don't know where to begin.First of all, this restaurant--called Saigon--was in the Sheraton Chicago on North Michigan Avenue sometime in the early to mid-1960s. (The Sheraton is long gone; an elegant and refined InterContinental … [Read more...]
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