Susan Blumberg-Kason

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    • When Friends Come From Afar
    • Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon
    • Good Chinese Wife
    • Hong Kong Noir
    • Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
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The house on Newhall Street

January 21, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I was so excited to recently find these old photos from my house in San Francisco. If you've read Good Chinese Wife, you may recall some of these rooms. They were where I spent the last two years of my first marriage. This was the house on Newhall Street.Our house looked like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Good Chinese Wife, Memoirs, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids

Hong Kong 1996

January 13, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I love finding old photos that I haven't seen in years, maybe decades. And when those photos were taken in Hong Kong, even better. Before the days of the camera phone, it took a special effort to take photos--and keep them. So I'm thrilled to show these from March and December … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Jewish Asia, Memoirs, My Family's Travels, old hong kong

My dad in Hong Kong

January 11, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

While I've written a bit about my mom's family and their trips to Hong Kong starting in the 1960s, my dad also spent some time in Hong Kong visiting me over the years. He was always a big city person (my parents honeymooned in New York City) and took to Hong Kong as soon as he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, My Family's Travels, old hong kong

Brunch at Fat Rice

January 10, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Today I took the kids to Fat Rice, Chicago's only Macanese restaurant, to try their brunch. I'd eaten dinner there before--and loved it--but this was the first time for brunch. And it did not disappoint!Fat Rice has an open kitchen and is cosy with communal tables or bar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, Hong Kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids

Introducing Fused Society

January 7, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I am so excited to introduce on my website a new publication! Created by Eva Cohen and Mai Huynh, Fused Society showcases "essays, creative writing and art by awesome, unique individuals from around the globe whose parents/grandparents came from different parts of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids

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