Tag: Fish

Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Curing Winter Meats)
December 29, 2011

Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Curing Winter Meats)

As you may have noted, my writer’s block is rather acute these days. Oddly enough, this dearth of things to say has coincided with an inexplicable increase in my impulse to take pictures of random things. Of course, these photos aren’t necessarily fit for human …

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Meat and Mops- My Parents’ Journey to Qibao
January 22, 2011

Meat and Mops- My Parents’ Journey to Qibao

So we went to Qibao yesterday, our first grand excursion in a week or so, as I’d been busy with stupid school stuff and having my jaw sledge-hammered, and my mother was battling her semi-inevitable post-flight cold. Doug and I had gone there about two …

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Christmas Day Odyssey in Shanghai: A Quest for Doug’s Destiny
December 25, 2010

Christmas Day Odyssey in Shanghai: A Quest for Doug’s Destiny

So remember how I said my next post was going to be all about the Christmas Party at the tea house, and how it would contain all my much-better camera photos rather than my crappy, grainy phone photos? Yeah. I lied. My bad. Unfortunately, we …

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A Fine Excuse To Eat: The University Christmas Party (Part 1)
December 25, 2010

A Fine Excuse To Eat: The University Christmas Party (Part 1)

I think I have two narratives here so I’m pre-emptively dividing them up into two posts. The taxonomical sorting process is based on two things: crappy phone camera vs. real camera, and food vs. performance and festivities. It’s Christmas morning and we’re heading out soon …

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A Series of Unrelated Photos (Part 3)
December 5, 2010

A Series of Unrelated Photos (Part 3)

Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. It’s a beautiful day today. Sun is shining, skies are blue. Scarves are too hot, a coat is nearly too much. Sunglasses are needed. Birds are singing, crowds thronging, babies squatting with split trousers, dogs in …

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Helpful Household Tips from Chinese University Students
December 3, 2010

Helpful Household Tips from Chinese University Students

Do you want to know one of the fastest ways to wrap your head around a new country and culture?  Teach there.  Let me show you some things I learned today whilst marking my students’ process essays.     How to wash your hair First, …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Provisions
October 30, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Provisions

As I am gearing up for the improbably overambitious NaNoWriMo, I’ve had to scale back on actual thoughts about reality in Shanghai. This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped being horribly invasive with my mobile phone camera. I’m now up to 601 poorly focused pictures in my …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Perspectives on Groceries
June 4, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Perspectives on Groceries

I’m pretty wussy when it comes to meat- I lean heavily towards vegetarian and would label myself a lacto-ovo-bacon vegetarian if it were an option. In Istanbul I was able to veer into shallow omnivore waters because butchers would happily do all the cutting and …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Grocery Photo Series
May 29, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Grocery Photo Series

     

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These are the people in my neighbourhood
May 26, 2010

These are the people in my neighbourhood

In other words, they are the people that I meet each day.     We are moving in a week or so. Our landlord is moving back into our flat because we are in a very good school district and his small daughter just reached …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Brutally honest meat
April 25, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Brutally honest meat

I love Chinese supermarkets. A lot of foreigners I know simply refuse to shop in Chinese supermarkets because some sections can be viscerally overwhelming. Like the meat and fish section.  Our local supermarket reeks of fish and flesh, most of which is not neatly packaged …

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