Vegetarian Meal

I'm mostly posting this picture because I know my mom will be so proud of my for all the colors in this meal: roast pumpkin with sesame oil and chili, soybeans sauteed with red peppers, and scrambled eggs with a dandelion-ish green that tastes mildly of juniper. We were going vegetarian on behalf of a house guest.

Midterms and the Season of the Mangosteen

June 1st 2010
It's been almost a month since I last posted an entry. I hope nobody's lost faith in me. May was an eventful month! I had my first serious Chinese tests ever, and mangosteens arrived in Kunming! The purple mangosteen is a tropical fruit with the high distinction of being the opposite of durian! Durian is a bad, bad fruit that smells like rotting shellfish and vegetables and tastes li ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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