Tag: Umbrellas

Further Adventures in Chinese Baking: Chocolate Coconut Cookies

Further Adventures in Chinese Baking: Chocolate Coconut Cookies

  I think the Plum Rains have started. This has been the driest year so far since we arrived in Shanghai in early 2009, though the low lying grimness hasn’t eased up. When I first moved here, I lived in a 4-story lane house out 

On the road to Mandalay, eventually

On the road to Mandalay, eventually

You can actually fly to Mandalay from Yangon for about $75US, so the romance of the road is somewhat lessened.  After bouncing around the Mon State south east of Yangon for the past week, I’ve come to value the brevity of flights. I’ve learned a 

(101 Things about Shanghai) Umbrellas

(101 Things about Shanghai) Umbrellas

  Shanghai has about three distinct rainy seasons: the freezing, bitterly sharp and spiky winter rains; the lackadaisical early spring rains which come and go and often leave you without an umbrella because the blue skies had misled you; the sweltering and humid summer rains,