Archive for the ‘Food Travelogues’ Category

Eating Like a College Student in Shanghai (China Trip – Day 1)

In case you had any doubt that flying on a commercial airline has lost all its olden day glamour, I invite you to hop on any US airline for an economy class flight across the Pacific.  I thought I was mentally prepared for the discomfort of the 20+ hour trip duration (including a 3 hour layover at [...]

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Are We Coming or Going? (China Trip – Introduction)

It was my better half’s first trip to China.  Actually, his first visit to Asia. 
“I want to see as much as possible.  I know you can’t see everything in two weeks, but I want to see a lot.”  He was, after all, going on one of those “trips of a lifetime.” 
Though I’d been there before, I [...]

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Summer Wedding Weekends: Brunch at the Inn at Dos Brisas

As I mentioned before, I try to take opportunity of Sunday brunch to do some chowhounding after all the catered meals at out-of-town weddings.  I thought my options for a wedding in Brenham, Texas would be slim (biscuits and sausage gravy or a sausage biscuit?) until I remembered a thread on DallasFood.org about the only 2008 Mobil five-star restaurant in [...]

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Summer Wedding Weekends: Brunch at Shade in Houston

I am solidly in the middle of that age range where I spend every other summer weekend at weddings.  And although they’re always a blast, weddings involve extensive, sometimes multi-meal, catering, and therefore equate to travelling without much chowhounding.  That is until the day after the celebration, when Sunday brunch provides an opportunity for some independent culinary exploration.
First, off [...]

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Birthday Weekend in San Francisco – Day 3

 
We started our last day in San Francisco with a brisk morning walk along the Embarcadero, starting from the grand San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

and working our way through Rincon Park to arrive at our destination, the Ferry Building.

The Ferry Building, in addition to being a transportation link in the Bay Area mass transit system, is [...]

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