it has been much too long since i have posted. our past several weeks in the US has been packed with travels, birthday celebrations, a wedding, reunions, showers, and even a photography workshop! whew. it has been a wonderful time but i am tired. but as a nice unexpected surprise, we are sticking around Michigan for...
Category Archives: food
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since coming to China, i have learned to make quite a few things from scratch. mainly out of necessity. “necessity”, as in i may have really been craving a certain sort of food and it just isn’t available, ready-made, processed and pre-packaged on your grocery store shelf. or it requires a trek into Shanghai and...
strawberry picking adventures | jiaxing china photographer
look what we got to do this weekend. yum. we ventured out with some of hannah’s classmates to the surrounding countryside to go strawberry-picking. me and hannah were both excited as we have never picked strawberries before and hannah *loves* strawberries. and it was a chance to get to know her classmates a little more....
egg waffles: hong kong-style
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...