I was going through old photos at my mom's today and came across these from Hong Kong 25 years ago. I'm not sure how I missed these before, but today was the first time I'd seen them in a quarter of a century.I've posted photos from my orientation at the Chinese University of … [Read more...]
Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival
I've been blogging now for five and a half years and have written plenty about the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of my favorite holidays ever. I've even had articles published in Chicago about where to go to celebrate this festival. So I don't know why it's taken me this long to post … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
I bought these dessert molds in Hong Kong last year as gifts for my two little ones. All this time I thought they were mooncake molds. My kids know mooncakes well and like to eat them around the Mid-Autumn Festival. But I never figured out how the mooncakes got to be so thick … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
I'm not sure where I first learned about this beautiful graphic novel, but I think it was somewhere on Amazon. I love Chinese history, a good romance, and--kind of new for me--graphic novels. Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir (Riverhead, … [Read more...]
New photos from my first year in Hong Kong!
I have no idea why I haven't posted these photos before. In fact, I haven't even taken them off their sticky album sheets since I first placed them there 24 years ago. When I looked closer at them tonight, I realized some were taken in places I'd forgotten I'd visited back then. … [Read more...]
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