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Watching the status updates of my distant friend’s lives fly by I started wondering about how tastes change. I saw a few people I know going back to the places they went to college and from there one or two mentioned how they’d gone back to their old haunts. It reminded me a bit of [...]

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Continuing my habit of posting my Quora answers as blog posts: Where are the best Japanese restaurants in Beijing? In terms of "where" geographically, my guess would be up near Anjialou, where I understand there to be a higher density of Japanese expats. Up there is a little pocket of a bunch of Japanese restaurants, [...]

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I like Natto. I think it is delicious. That said, natto is definitely an acquired taste. When my chef sister first tried it she didn’t think it especially tasty, though allowed that it could have a place in fine Asian cuisine. Another friend of mine on taking her first bite declared that it was “like [...]

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Today while paging through my newsreader I came across this post on a blog I recently started reading. It made me miss both being in Chicago for the availability of such foods and even more, I fondly remembered the time I spent in Bangalore with my friend’s family eating homemade deliciousness. Undoubtedly this is also [...]

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I decided to go through all the random crap pictures that were on my phone and here are a couple interesting ones from the last five days: First, I read about this ridiculous thing here and decided I would try it. I didn’t realize that I would decide to try it quite so soon but [...]

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