Tag: noodles
Suzhou
The trip from Chengdu to Shanghai was our longest train ride yet, something like 36 hours long. We managed to trim a few hours off the trip by stopping in Suzhou and then taking a faster train (because, of...
Xi'an: More from the Muslim Quarter
Over the course of our time in Xi'an, we failed at most of the things we tried to do: getting off buses at the right stop, arriving at museums before closing time, buying pants, and biking around the city...
Beijing
Our return to China filled me with a remarkably strong and surprising joy. Certainly some of this emotion can be explained by the lifting of the economic tension of being in Japan, and some of it by the warm...
Bangkok
We've seen street food vendors in every town and city on this trip, but Bangkok feels like the very beating heart of street cooking. Seemingly every third block, in every kind of neighborhood, from the upscale mall blocks to...
Kunming and Yuanyang
UPDATE: The mystery goo in the last entry has been identified. We went to a supermarket and it was right on the shelf: instant lotus-root starch, available in plain and rose flavors. Greg and I spent most of our time...
Guilin and Yangshuo
Greg and I have spent the last few days in Guilin and Yangshuo, in Guangxi Province, areas popular with Chinese tourists and backpackers alike for their impressive limestone karst peaks and views of the Li River. Both towns are...
Hong Kong and Kowloon
Hong Kong is a city designed for pedestrians. And shoppers. The two things that I'll remember most about Hong Kong are the everpresent pedestrian bridges and the endless malls, often connected into a sprawling network, so that it is...
