There is no diversity in Middle America. None that the naked eye can see. It’s flat plains of corn and wheat and fields of short chunky grass mowed by cattle for miles. Then mountains for miles. But when you get up close, really close, then huge expanses of hot springs brilliantly colored by thermophytes emerge. [...]
Tag Archives: vices
The bourgeois life in China
I’m in the little industrial town of Rui’an (瑞安) off the southern coast of China. It’s so small it doesn’t have a KFC. Just a KFC knock-off with a forgettable Chinese name. (KFC acts as the marker of civilization for China, as Starbucks does for America) The knock-off’s menu features some Portuguese egg tarts too, but [...]
Work, Perks, and Quirks
The stuff I do in the name of “work.” Let’s start going over big bonuses. As I found out first hand today, there is very little serenity in sitting on a tiny stool, an island within a mega-Walmart in Nanjing, face plastered over with an astringent face mask sans eye-holes, so that the only thing [...]
Irish in Boston
I wore green today, but you know, it’s not like I would have punch you in the face if you had not worn red for Chinese New Year. When I experienced my first St. Patrick’s Day in Boston three years ago, Larissa, Eric, and I went into Southie, ducked under the barricades, and as freshmen [...]
Jenny Liu’s Little Red Book
20 something New Yorker working in advertising, while trying to break into a 4000 year old tea trade in the People's Republic of China.
Where am I now? Check my Google map
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Mac and Cheese takedown taken-down
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St. Marks' love letter
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An empire state of mind
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Moved to Boston, ate some stuff
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Tokyo reverie
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Middle America: gastronomic wasteland?
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Contrasts
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One small step into a tea farm,
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It takes some guts (and stomach) to be a New Yorker
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New Orleans, 20 pounds later.
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Eric: Why are you going around stalking bargirls and sen...
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Jenny Liu: Not as amazing as the photos YOU took!...
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