In the spirit of the last days of the December shopping frenzy, I thought I'd blog about one of my favorite pastimes: shopping in Hong Kong!People have said its heyday as a shopper's paradise is long gone, but I disagree. Prices might not be super inexpensive anymore, but … [Read more...]
A night with CASL
I've had so much fun this autumn volunteering with the Chinese American Service League in Chicago. I started teaching English to two classes of senior citizens and have recently added a craft class. My kids have gone with me a couple times. We even made a local Chinese newspaper … [Read more...]
Lunch at Fat Rice
When my oldest son asked when we could go back to Fat Rice, one of our favorite restaurants, I said why not today?So my husband and I loaded the kids into our car and drove into the city for a big and delicious lunch of Southeast and East Asian delicacies.We started with … [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...]
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