For almost a year, I'd been hearing about Ray Hecht's forthcoming novel, South China Morning Blues (Blacksmith Books, 2015), which comes out from the publisher on October 15 and on Amazon later this year. When the author sent me a review copy, I found myself pausing at every … [Read more...]
Lantau Island, 1990
It was quite a coup finding these photos from Lantau Island my mom took back in 1990. Although I hadn't seen them in 25 years, that trip is something that stayed with me and something my mom and I still talk about.I'd been in Hong Kong for four months when my mom flew over to … [Read more...]
More Hong Kong 1990
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...]
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