“Where should we go for lunch?” Jonathan asked me via text. I was getting used to this game: people being nice by asking me where I want to go, only for me to tell them I’m new to the city and they should make the suggestion… “29 Newbury is always easy and good” said Jonathan. […]

Where to have lunch in Boston… it seemed like such an easy question, but having lived abroad for 2 years, I really wasn’t sure about an answer. Compounded with the fact that the person I was meeting (Josh Chaim – a friend from Beijing who was in town for business) wasn’t too familiar with the […]

The ride from Guilin to Yangshuo was an easy hour and a half.  A gorgeous hour and a half. An hour and a half that we wished had been slowed by traffic. Sprawling karst formations, lush greenery, bountiful farm land… it was wonderful being in the heart of China’s most beautiful countryside, especially coming from […]

“Beef noodle chicken rice?” the flight attendant asked me on our trip down to Guilin. “Beef noodle” I reluctantly replied and immediately was delivered a steaming tin-foil pan of ground beef slurry over dense, brick like noodles. Yes, I thought, I will wait till we arrive at our western hotel before I eat today. 4 […]