This week I ventured much closer to home. In fact, I read a book that takes place in Chicago and my hometown of Evanston. You can't get much closer than that.I'd read rave reviews of Katherine Shonk's debut novel, Happy Now? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) and recognized … [Read more...]
Ambassador Hotel, Hong Kong
When I was younger, I used to collect matchboxes from my travels. Before I turned 20, I had bowls of them from South Korea, Tahiti, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, and places across the US. (The only matchbooks I saw in China back there were plain white, so I didn't … [Read more...]
Postcard pretty
Yesterday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with fellow alumni from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The director of the alumni association was in town and brought us all a package of these beautiful postcards.Twenty years ago this summer I flew off to Hong Kong to start my … [Read more...]
China tours, 1981
I love this 1981 ad for China tours. This poor guy looks like he just returned from the Long March.The text in this ad reads:China has only recently begun to develop its potential as a destination for the traveller.That's kind of an understatement.Back then, you … [Read more...]
Japanese treasure trove
My mom brought me this stash of green tea from Japan last week. Japanese green tea is my favorite.The tea on the left and in the center (in the white bag) is genmaichai, or roasted rice tea. If you look closely at the bag on the left, you can see brown pieces of roasted rice … [Read more...]
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