13: All by Myself
January 10, 2010
Aaron left about an hour ago to go back to Atlanta. I’m all packed for Beijing; I don’t really have anything left to do.
My flight on Thursday was changed. My itinerary is as follows:
| WASH/DULLES to BEIJING departing Thursday, January 14 | ||
| UNITED 897 |
Depart: WASH/DULLES 12:23 PM Arrive: BEIJING 10:15 PM Seat(s): |
STOPOVER Equip: PLANE CHANGE AT NRT MP miles: 8082 |
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The stopover is in Tokyo.
Time to kill some time…
12: Chinese Cooking for Dummies
January 5, 2010
Tonight, I opened my Chinese Cooking for Dummies cookbook and decided that it was time to attempt Chinese cuisine. Big mistake.
The goal: Cook Shanghai fried noodles and potstickers for six people in the course of two hours.
The chefs:
Aaron and Burger
The result: 3 hours in a kitchen, 12 shredded potstickers, 31 really good potstickers, lots of Shanghai fried noodles, a half pound of extra plain Shanghai noodles, and a huge mess. I’m exhausted!
This was a good experiment though. In reading through a majority of the cookbook, it made me aware of just how much sesame and nuts the Chinese use; I’m in trouble (for those of you who don’t know, I have an anaphylactic reaction to both foods). I will hopefully have my own kitchen so that I can learn to cook for myself. I won’t be able to go out to restaurants until I know the language better. Living in China will be quite the change.
