I might be ready to give up ( Read more... )

I'm posting this from a random hotel room in Xuzhou - a pretty big city in the Middle of Nowhere AKA Jiangsu province, China - where I stayed tonight with a few friends from the academy and my old roomie ( Read more... )

This could not have been a weirder day ( Read more... )

December 1st, that's the date I'll be moving to China for 6 months. Maybe more, maybe even less if it turns out to be blah.. but I'm aiming for at least that.
I'll be staying in a kung fu academy in Xinyi, which is a city in the north of the Jiangsu province, not far from the eastern coast of China.

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So finally, after a million years of not eating any real food, made myself some lunch today!


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And spare me all the "I didn't know vegetables had balls" jokes. :)
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Soondubu Jigae - a spicy Korean tofu soup dish I first tasted at Hey Kyung's restaurant in Japan.
It was delicious. I was never a big fan of soups (or tofu, or spicy food) but the two soups I ate there just left me craving for more. This one was my favorite of the two- tender meat, tofu and some greens, in a spicy heavenly boiling soup / stew.


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I made myself some sushi from brown short-grain rice. because I figured, maybe I just need to stop eating nothing, I mean I've lost 7kgs already and I'm tired of collapsing, throwing up, and being dizzy all the time. This morning kind of got to me, I'll admit.
It was delicious. and the brown rice, surprisingly, tasted just as good if not better than ( Read more... )