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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Brunch in Brooklyn

May 1, 2017 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

When I was in college in Baltimore, my parents visited a couple times and always took my friends and me out to eat. I remember mussels in Fells Point and dim sum (there was like one place in the whole city in the late 80s/early 90s). As much as I wanted to build my independence, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, Misc, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

Photo Friday

April 21, 2017 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

This is one of my favorite photos ever, taken almost 26 years ago when I was passing through Hong Kong with my father and met up with my college roommates for dinner one night. I'd always thought we'd gone to a Shanghainese restaurant and figured it was somewhere on Hong Kong … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photo Friday Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, Hong Kong, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Book of the week–Collected Hong Kong Stories

March 19, 2017 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I'm a big fan of books published by Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong. What's not to love? The press publishes mostly non-fiction narratives, memoirs, food, photography, and other art and culture titles pertaining to Hong Kong. But every once in a while it releases a novel or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book of the Week Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, China, Hong Kong, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Article in Chicago Tribune

March 11, 2017 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

A friend recently sent me this lovely Chicago notecard and a copy of an interview I did last month! … [Read more...]

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

My blog is 7 years old!

February 28, 2017 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I started my blog seven years ago, not really knowing what I would write about. But my web designer, Christine, from Sorella Design, suggested I write a blog. So I tried it and voila--seven years later--here we are.When I started the blog, I was still writing my memoir, … [Read more...]

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

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