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.
Jun/100
wuhan – an i get buckets tribute post
my friend rocky has a blog – i get buckets. he often travels and puts together photo posts here’s my tribute post (or ‘biting his style’) as some might say.
Jun/100
wuhan
spent a couple of days in wuhan recently. photos will be up soon. heres a couple of emails i wrote from my lunch
From: Terence
Sent: 06/04/2010 02:17 PM ZE8
To: Colin
Subject: The scene
A japanese restaurant in a shopping mall.
A man with a baseball cap is berating the poor waitress who had the termerity to tell him he couldn’t smoke.
He is wearing an Ed Hardy shirt, versace like shades and carrying a large European carry all.
He sits down, studies the menu, and tries to call a waitress over.
Snapping his fingers loudly) “??Lai! ” he exclaims.
I drink my Coke in the corner and ask for the fa piao.
From: Terence
To: Colin
Date: 06/04/2010 02:23 PM
Subject: Re: The scene
Oh, they’ve ordered sake for lunch.
His companions have arrived, one, a portly middle aged man with a brush cut straight out of the PLA recruiting manual and a toothpick jammed into the corner of his mouth, the other, a female of indeterminate age, slightly pigeon toed, un certain of her walk on plastic clear heels.
She is screaming into a mobile phone.
Attractive in the classical sense, a long legged beauty, she makes you think of the old adage “no matter how good looking, someone, somewhere is tired of dealing with her.”
I recognize this comment as it applies to me right now in this moment.
Mar/104
in between shanghai and hong kong
is dragonair business class.
man, oneworld alliance airlines must LOVE me. I’m riding about a 25% upgrade percentage over the last -ten- thirteen years of flying cathay pacific and dragonair.
Mar/100
being a weatherman in singapore must be easy
i’m on my way down tomorrow morning. chicken rice. laksa. satays. chili crab. pepper crab. friends.
Feb/100
year of the tiger
i’m down here in hong kong – without a camera cable connector, so you’re just going to have to wait on blog posts about boston restaurant and tai hing and other lunar new year goodness.
it is nice to be back in the 852 though, it always feels like home to me.
here’s an awesome hdr shot of hong kong by sprengben
Jan/100
“money’s too tight for steak”
after spending my christmas and new year’s holidays in (relatively) sunny california, i hopped on a plane headed eastwards for new york city.
unfortunately, as this was a work trip, i didn’t have all that many free meals, but i knew that with one of my meals, i wanted steak. big thick american cuts of steak. i had obsessed about having steak since reading ruth reichl’s garlic and sapphires and about her search for the best steakhouse in new york city.
Jan/102
juan’s for mexican
in yet another post in a never ending effort for me to write a non-food blog, i bring another food post.
one of the joys of going back to california is the huge variety of food from all over the world available. authentic food.
but sometimes, sometimes, you are just craving some dumbed-down american version of that nation’s cuisine. me? i love cheesy, big plated mexican food – the type you get from chevy’s or el torito or similar family style tex-mex places.
the week after new year’s, i was in berkeley with my cousin and her husband to watch my university take on the stanford university cardinal in a game of basketball. after a super satisfying beatdown, we worked up an appetite. i had mentioned i wanted mexican food – actually i wanted a burrito – but my cousin was horrified when i said that i had never heard of juan’s, which has apprently been around forever.
Dec/090
home for the holidays
after an epic 4 airport (shanghai pudong, hong kong chep lap kok, san francisco international and san diego international) and 23 hour journey involving 2 cars, 1 train, 3 flights i finally arrived in san diego just in time to catch the poinsietta bowl, starring my beloved cal bears. while the game result didn’t go as i would’ve hoped, it’s good to be back in california for a little while. i’m here through the 2nd, and then i’ll be in new york through the 7th or 8th. here’s some photos from my trip home and the bowl game.
Oct/090
chinese sports footwear brands
i just got back from a 2 day business trip to quanzhou, fujian. the wikipedia article talks a lot about the products that quanzhou’s economy depends on:
Quanzhou is a major exporter of agricultural products such as tea, banana, lychee and rice. It is also a major producer of quarry granite and ceramics. Other industries include textiles, footwear, fashion and apparel, packaging, machinery, paper and petrochemicals
of most interest for this post, however is hidden right in there. footwear – specifically sports footwear.