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Mon, Jan. 3rd, 2005 06:30 pm
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Well, my vacation is now over, and I'm in an airport once again. I'm already feeling horribly homesick, and I suspect this is just going to get worse for a while before it gets better. Everyone reading this must be so sick of how I routinely experience crushing homesickness every time I leave my parents or sister, but, well, it's a pretty constant pattern by now.

To sort of cheer myself up, a list of many food items I have had in my week and a bit here... I have eaten xiao long bao (small pork bao with a sort of soup inside, steamed, with very thin skin) three times (twice at Gao Ji, once at Din Tai Fong), vegetable dumplings, red bean paste bao, really good chicken noodle soup Chinese style (the chicken has been in the soup/stock for hours and doesn't taste so good, but mmmmm, the soup! And the noodles are that perfect consistency, just a little bit softer than al dente to be very QQ/chewy). And steamed water dumplings (shue jiao), these beef rolls with scallion that I haven't had for forever and really love (the slight taste of sauce is so good). I've also had a giant seafood dinner with steamed fish sprinkled with green onions and ginger and a soy sauce and oil sauce, steamed taro with dried scallop bits on top (so good), a ton of lobster and crab (steamed, stir-fried and baked), this sort of caviar pressed in cakes and sliced, eaten with slices of radish and green onion (really interesting and tasty combination of extreme seafood-y saltiness and the fresh, watery crisp of radish), giant baked prawns, platters of steamed shrimp with heads on (best way to go), slightly cooked scallop, enough to be perfectly tender, and loads and loads of sashimi.

Street food wise I have had candied strawberries on a stick, these little egg cakes (freshly made and piping hot with a crispy outside and soft inside), hot grass jelly with all sorts of sweet beans and chewy tapioca bits, a ton of honey-lemon juice because I was sick, zhua bing (sort of like scallion pancakes, without the scallion, again, fresh off the griddle), strawberry shaved ice (the boy thought I was nuts, because it was really cold that day, but it was really good).

I have also had roasted chestnuts, a ton of chocolate, lots of oranges (the ugly kind that taste like giant satsumas, but sweeter), fresh strawberries because amazingly, it's strawberry season here, and oh my, they are so sweet and juicy and not at all sour, and lien wu and dates and guava and freshly squeezed orange juice. It's amazing I haven't gained ten pounds already. It's also vaguely embarrassing that I keep track of everything I eat ;).

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Tue, Dec. 28th, 2004 08:06 pm
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Going to pick up the boy soon!

So far, I have eaten way too much food, all of it good, gone up on a Ferris wheel, met up with old high school friends, tried Southern Comfort with lime juice (actually pretty good), gotten a facial, and opened a lot of chocolate. Have I mentioned the eating? It doesn't sound like I've done a lot, but it feels like it, and all of it is meals!

I've had a very good Szechuan fancy dinner (Christmas), assorted dumplings and baozi, a lot of street food, a buffet dinner, beef soup with shaved noodles (they're sort of uneven because people just shave them off a block of ... noodle stuff), fancy Japanese food (yummy!), and home-cooked curry and assorted other stuff. And fruit. One of the happiest things about Taiwan is that there is never a season in which fruit is scarce. Right now I am drowning in wax apples (lien wu), ponkan oranges (sort of like satsumas, but a lot bigger and sweeter), and dates. My stomach is very happy with me right now.

There's also an article on the increase of female readership for comics, thanks to manga, in the NYT here.

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Sat, Dec. 25th, 2004 11:15 pm
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Merry Christmas everyone!

I am very happy at home, albeit still sick.

Watched ROTK:EE with [livejournal.com profile] fannishly today (SQUEEEE!!!! Eowyn/Faramir scenes! Even though they were too short!). I actually did note things outside of the extra Eowyn scenes, but not much ;). I wanted to be Eowyn when I read LotR for the first time in sixth grade, which sort of explains the obsession.

No presents or anything, given that this is my family and we don't so much do Christmas as not. But, amazingly, my sister and her friend actually put up the Christmas tree just for me! Usually I'm the only person in the house who bothers to put it up because everyone else is too lazy, so it was a nice surprise.

And today was the giant dinner party with assorted old family friends, some of whom I haven't seen for a good year or so, so it was really nice catching up. Unfortunately, I am still sick (it has progressed from stuffy nose to coughing), and now my voice is totally shot because I was talking all night. Right now, I sound like an attractive combination of frog and adolescent boy whose voice is cracking. Tomorrow is yet another ginormous dinner party, another signal that I am home. All social activity revolves around food. At least when my parents are involved. Not that I'm complaining! Anyway, I had a lot of fun giving out my brand spanking new business cards to everyone and gleefully pointing out that the company logo is all nice and raised and stuff. I'm very easily impressed.

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Thu, Dec. 23rd, 2004 04:33 pm
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Whoo! Am home now! Will call you soon, [livejournal.com profile] fannishly. I think we're going to be in Taipei the next two days and there's some free time tomorrow afternoon, if that works out.

The plane ride was... well, it was a twelve-hour-long flight. And my sinuses are still rebelling, so I got that oh-so-wonderful icepick-up-the-nose feeling when we landed, which, let me tell you, is not the most pleasant way to spend an hour. Oh well. I'm home now!

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