as everyone else is weighing in on this fall's tv, i was hiking today and had a moment of inspiration[sung to louis armstrong's what a wonderful world]what a horrendous worldi see heroes fall, meredith too oh how they su…

so while i was not really paying attn to the very berry berry boring world series game 4 (i don't even like baseball) i thought of city nicknames. beantown at mile high. so why is boston called beantown anyway? not li…

so one of the shows i watch is bizarre foods with andrew zimmern. he goes around the world sampling each country's 'local' food. in mexico that means grasshoppers, in morocco that means goat's eye. in taiwan that mean…

apparently the xiao long bao (xlb) fever is catching on. this shanghainese food item has somehow become 'the item' any self respecting foodie must know abt. well, good ones are difficult to master. it's basically a so…

i wanna go to yu garden, but... this is hilarious cuz the red chinese charaters in the middle of the package translates to 'safe meat'... concerned with food safety are we?