The world becomes smaller when you travel. I don’t mean that in the proverbial sense, where meeting new people from different countries and learning about their cultures exposes us to the idea that we are all much more similar than we could possibly imagine. This is certainly true, but I…
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Colorful Characters along the Road to the Yellow Mountains
Inspiration comes when we least expect it. Conversations at a bar, on the street, or in a hostel lobby might one day fester in your mind and send you on a half-baked adventure flying by the seat of your pants. This was how I ended up going to the Yellow…
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Return of the Three Cornered Bread
It’s been three years since I first discovered the simple but fulfilling Shanghai school cafeteria delicacy that is Three-Cornered Bread (三角并). With each additional trip to Shanghai, the legend of the aloof fried dough grew. Empires rose and fell in those three years, but the one constant was the search…
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New Orleans – A City for the Senses
What a beautiful, thriving city New Orleans is! I had very little expectations arriving on a sweltering day in early July. Unlike New York, whose image is captured in the public eye daily, I only had a vague preconception of jazz and Mardi Gras inside my head. Little did I…