S and I received another loathsome cafe experience today. To be truthful, I had been there once before and resolved never to come back. For the sake of coherency and to avoid accusations of libel, let me re-name it the Mauve Leek Cafe. The sneering, passive aggressive undergraduates; the wobbly, unaccommodating tables; the inexplicable racket [...]
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Don’t know if I could do it. Aside from plant-based things, my eyes, brain, and stomach work together to object to eating anything of a whole body in one bite. This pertains to mollusks, balut, and bugs. Shrimp and scallops are excluded, strangely.
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I’ve returned to Minneapolis; although I rested too much and did too little at home, I won’t deny wanting to return immediately. My mother made congee, faan tuen, pecan tartlets, and so on. The faan tuen was especially toothsome; I had been thinking about it for months, of the tea-boiled eggs, the fluffy shredded dried [...]
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