continuing on this food theme for this week, i’ll share a small but happy food experience during our trip to hong kong. we were just walking along the streets when we stumbled across this hole-in-the-wall food stand, selling egg puffs. egg puffs (or egg cakes) are basically a hong kong version of waffles that break...
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mondays at the market | jiaxing china photographer
as we gradually settle into some sort of routine here, mondays have become my day to go to the local market. when it comes to buying groceries, you can go to the supermarkets or you can go to the traditional markets. the supermarkets are equivalent to what we’re used to in the US – indoors,...
chinese new year, hong kong style
continuing on about my adventure to the HK flower market over the Chinese New Year. as i said in my last post, it was not your average flower market.
we arrived to find out it was actually a New Year FAIR. the guys seemed much more relieved and excited once they saw that we were not...
feasting | a jiaxing thanksgiving
it’s been a week now since Thanksgiving, and I just finished the last of the leftover turkey soup today. one of the highlights of our new apartment here in Jiaxing is that it has a BUILT-IN OVEN. this is a rare commodity in China, as I have commented on before.
with a full-size oven, i was...
mid-autumn festival | ningbo photographer
today is the mid-autumn festival, also called moon festival, or 中秋節 (zhongqiu jie) for you Chinese readers. it’s another big holiday in this part of the world.
a couple things you should do today to celebrate:
1) eat mooncake
for several weeks now, the supermarkets have been filled with tons of varying gift boxes containing mooncake, and everyone...
the first (confinement) month
well, we have officially made it through the first month of kaylah’s life. while we chose to go western-style for prenatal and delivery care… the postpartum period was all chinese-style. That means the first month after delivery is 坐月子 “zuo yuezi”. Literally translated, it means sitting the first month, others have translated it as the...
it’s yangmei season in ningbo | ningbo photographer
one thing i have enjoyed here is eating fruit. fruits here are generally really good. sweet, juicy, yum. back in michigan, i rarely ate apples… and isn’t michigan supposed to be known for their apples? but here, i eat apples *all the time* because they just taste better. some of my old roomies would be proud...
made brownies the other day
… can you tell?
amongst other things, figured we’d try to take advantage of the ease of baking (e.g. being able to buy brownie mix, having full size oven) while we’re in the US =)
coffee adventures – hot or cold
In the 5+ months that we’ve lived here so far, we’ve only made it to the downtown area of our city a handful of times. But each time we go, we make sure to make a stop at a place we don’t have in our little port district… Starbucks. And each time I’ve snapped a picture...
how to make lasagna in ningbo, china
1. request mom to bring over lasagna noodles from the US in her luggage during a visit
2. obtain ricotta cheese during a trip to hong kong and tote back in your suitcase
3. drive 45 minutes to downtown to buy parmesan cheese
4. buy remaining ingredients at local grocery store - including fresh spinach because no pre-cooked, pre-chopped, frozen stuff...