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[oyceter]

1. I think I am renaming the rats so that the brown rat is Ed-rat and the white hooded one is Al-rat. They're both still very shy, but the brown one runs around and sniffs at everything and jumps away and jumps back again and runs around more when the white one likes snoozing under the blankets until dragged out by his brother or me. They are still so adorable!



2. I have finally started taking advantage of academic library access! JSTOR! BAS! Access to back issues of Publisher's Weekly! I already have several books out on ILL so I can try and catch up with manga scholarship, particularly anything that focuses on gender.



3. Any book recs for books by POC about food? Fictional or non-fictional is fine, have already read Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Serve the People, and plan on reading Madhur Jaffrey and David Masumoto.



4. East Bay people! Tell me about your favorite restaurants!

Comments

[oyceter]

I did! It was hard to put down once I started. It made me so homesick and hungry!

I liked it a lot; I thought it got into a lot of issues without taking the focus away from the food. More blathering here. Thanks for the loan!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

How did I miss that post???

The book made me crazy-hungry, too, especially for dumplings. Maybe we need dim sum next month? Can you get xiao long bao in the Bay Area? ::drools pathetically::

[oyceter]

Ooooooo I agree about dim sum! Or there's a really good Canto place in Millbrae that does tasty fish and fish congee. Along with other things, of course!

I sadly haven't found a great xiao long bao place in Bay Area, though that is probably because I keep comparing them to Ding Tai Fung. But I should check Yelp because I want some now!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Fiiiiiiiiish! And yeah, see what Yelp has to say. (: I'm happy to go wherever you pick.

[oyceter]

Ooo, I have a suggestion from an EBay person in comments that was also recced by a classmate, may try that...

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Excellent. More information. (: I'm hungry again!