Woe

[oyceter]

I am so homesick right now! Not that I am not already grateful to be able to go back twice this year, but I left right as New Year celebrations were starting, and I miss the music and the noise and the red decorations everywhere and the food. It's just not the same here, and all Borders has, holiday-wise, is Valentine's Day stuff. Pah!

At least shopping at Ranch 99 today was extremely New Years-esque: hordes of people, lots of lines, cheesy music, and all the proper foods right there.

I was going to try to steam a fish, but I decided that was rather iffy and am going to make savory nian gao instead. And dumplings. And mi fen. And maybe souffle.

But really, there should be tons of noise and gambling games and firecrackers everywhere!

Comments

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Um. And I completely forgot to say my main point: I'm so sorry to hear you're homesick!

[oyceter]

Hee! Thank you! I am much better now after throwing a New Year Eve party with people from Taiwan yay.

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Sounds AWESOME!

[oyceter]

Oh! I hope you went for dinner if it was ok socially! Because New Year Eve dinner! Then again... foreign language!

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

It didn't go off because of some technical snafu -- oh well, I still love my landlady and am going to ask what's an appropriate "sorry I couldn't attend" present. I erased the comment because I realized it was pretty insensitive in the light of your homesickness (I was just freaking out all over the place).

[oyceter]

Oh, no, seriously, don't worry about it! Homesickness is almost always helped by hearing about Taiwan, and it didn't bug me at all.

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, great, then! :) I actually have to start blogging (with pictures!) more often about Taiwan, now that I'm over the two-month hurdle. (My landlady might actually be a good place to start. She is AWESOME and is forever bringing me food when she picks up my rent.)

[oyceter]

Yeeessss! I encourage the photo blogging! Very much!

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Tonight's trip to Ximending has confirmed a troubling pattern, however; usually when I buy food, I eat it too fast to take pictures. :( :( (Onion pancakes and candied strawberries. I did manage a snap of candied tomatoes, minus only one specimen.)

[oyceter]

Ohhhhhhh I so jealous! Candied strawberries!