Jul/100
westside! (china)
my friend and former colleague bryan warsaw is currently on his way out of china. on his way out, he’s travelling through xinjiang, tibet and nepal. stop by his blog and check out his photos.
Jul/100
inspiration from the north
so i saw this post over at beijing hao chi about making duck a l’orange using a rice cooker and it gave me an idea. well the idea was to make duck a l’orange – except instead of using my crappy rice cooker, i’d use my nice italian glorified toaster oven.
but the main inspiration was to go to the somewhat-local lianhua supermarket and buy my duck legs. my local lianhua is terrible and cityshop is expensive AND doesn’t carry poultry beyond chicken. but at the larger, somewhat more foreigner friendly one down the road – lots of poultry to be had.
following on a combination of the beijing hao chi recipe linked above and the recipe culled from anthony bourdain’s les halles cookbook that i won’t bother replicating here – but let’s just say it involved duck, various types of citrus, some leftover red wine from the last time galbraith was here to watch “fargo”, various herbs and some oven time.
photos after the jump
May/100
beijing food porn
a friend of mine turned me onto this blog . . . written by a friend of his. the photography is gorgeous . .. and the food looks awesome.
it’s a phat sh for beijing!
Sep/090
portrait of an lbx
portrait of a laobaixing.
saw this on shanghaiist - apparently these guys are going to ride around china on bicycles and take photos along the way. the photo blog up til now has been pretty awesome – and the trip sounds pretty amazing. i plan to be following online as they go. and to be honest, i’m pretty jealous.
Sep/090
everybody’s working 9-to-5
inspired by one of andrew’s posts about his commutes in beijing, and probably of zero interest to anybody who is not me, this is my daily commute in shanghai.
(also starring my sony cybershot dsc t-9 which has recently been on the disabled list for almost 2 years, but is being pressed back into service)
here is my front door, where i can pick from about 30 pairs of shoes. as today is a work day, i pick up my falling-apart-9 year old pair of ballys and head out the door.
more after the jump
Sep/094
jerks: a multi-cultural phenomenon
fellow shanghai blogger woaizhongguo has a pet peeve (actually doesn’t everyone?) against “loser laowai”. in his words:
Regular readers will know I have a pet hate for what I call “loser laowai”. Foreigners who back home are total losers with no friends who come here and are inexplicably adored by the locals, who think they are incredibly amusing, handsome and clever.
while i share his distaste, these people are often enough easily avoided in shanghai, as this is a city of 18 million people, and there really aren’t that many foreigners here.
however, last weekend when i was at my favorite pirate dvd store, i encountered such a gentleman, but i’m not sure if he was a “loser laowai,” or more likely just a jerk.
an older foreign gentleman, who was with a younger chinese woman were shopping in the same pirate dvd store that i was in, and i guess i was busy reading the back of my dvd package, when the guy full on shoves me in the shoulder - i guess his girlfriend was trying to exit – really? is that how we communicate now? no “excuse me?” or “sorry” or “hello”?
of course i thought of all sorts of comebacks 30 seconds after he left, most of them starting with “asshole” or “dickhead” or “pok gai” – i really wish i was faster on my feet. but i was just so shocked about being shoved by a 60 year old white guy that i was speechless.
anyways, that guy better look out, because i’m filled with insults now, and i’m ready to let loose.