February 28, 2010
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Chinese New Year
Spring Festival started off with a grand and epic display of fireworks. And then the fireworks exploded continuously for 14 days straight.
These are the posts from February 2010
February 25, 2010
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Kings and Emperors
Last week I headed to northwest Beijing for a little more time exploring the abandoned theme park I spotted when I first got here. The parks name was to be Wonderland and was abandoned some 8 years back halfway through building. Now there are cornfields running through any usable land.
So that makes one abandoned [...]
February 14, 2010
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South Meets East
THE RED BEAN RED VELVET ::
In efforts to be more socially [and fiscally] responsible I’ve decided to try and explore baking with as few imported ingredients as possible. While exploring the local convenience store I came up with this moon cake inspired cupcake, red velvet cake baked with red bean paste filling, cream cheese frosting [...]
February 1, 2010
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Flip Cupcake
THE IRISH CARBOMB CUPCAKE ::
I made this cupcake last year for Valentines Day [known in my relationship as the non-institutionalized Relationship Celebration Day]. Here it is again with Guinness cocoa cake, Cheap Chinese whiskey chocolate ganache filling, and Bailey’s Irish Crème frosting. I accidently gave one to an alcoholic who was a part of AA. [...]