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no. 99: postcards
I drove one last carload of our move down through Sunday night’s blizzard, a mishmash of dog beds and tamis (yes, I have more than one, why do you ask…
Jan 25
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December 2024
no. 98: the internet made flesh
The cafe that just opened in my neighborhood seems less a commercial undertaking than a public art project.
Dec 31, 2024
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no. 97: perfected, like humanity
My office sits between two ramen joints, one where the cooks are Chinese and one where the cooks are Thai (the kitchen porters at both are Latin…
Dec 21, 2024
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November 2024
no. 96: they find you
1. Really this spoon is D’s, though it passed through my hands around 2007, when my mum excavated it from one of the innumerable, immaculate drawers of…
Nov 27, 2024
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banana leaves
Banana leaves
Nov 1, 2024
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October 2024
Taucheo
Taucheo
Oct 15, 2024
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no. 95: lamb tripe with your fingers
Over the last month I found myself visiting dojos in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, where the silver line snakes west from DC, a tentacle pulling…
Oct 12, 2024
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September 2024
no. 94: near-extinct
The internet calls loh kai yik a “forgotten” or “near-extinct” hawker dish, which raises the question of how something can be forgotten once it’s on the…
Sep 22, 2024
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Zingiberacea
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen - List of Koehler Images, Public Domain, via Wikimedia commons
Sep 20, 2024
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August 2024
Belimbing buloh
Hullo to readers old and new!
Aug 30, 2024
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no. 93: 2km at 11pm
Perhaps inevitably, our first meal in Vienna was at a würstelstand, at midnight.
Aug 24, 2024
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Asam gelugur
Asam gelugur
Aug 11, 2024
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