Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Tropical desserts
If there’s one thing I love, it’s dessert. In fact, when I was a kid, I swore I had two stomachs — a dinner stomach, and a much larger dessert stomach.
There are a bunch of foods I really miss from back home, but there are definitely some perks to living near Southeast Asia, namely, cheap [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Food by Caitlin
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
A news comparison
The atmosphere has been a little tense in Beijing lately, because this year is the so-called 6521 year. It has the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China founding, 50th anniversary of China’s quashing of the Tibetan uprising, 20th anniversary of the 1989 student democracy protests at Tiananmen Square and the 10th anniversary of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Beijing, Culture! by Caitlin
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The bounty of Spring
Spring is just around the corner in Beijing, with high temperatures of around 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the past week. The sun has been out every day, and I’ve been really enjoying the foods that have come around.
Beijing has these really pathetic, anemic strawberries for sale on the street, that I have been avoiding for [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Beijing, Food by Caitlin
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
The Unappealing truth
I have three vegetable peelers:
The first veggie peeler came with a knife set. The set included three knives, a peeler and a small cutting board for 35 kuai, so I wasn’t expecting much from it. It at least took off skins plus chunks of flesh, but more because of blunt force on my part than [...]
