Singapore Food Binge

turnip cake (lo baak gou)

buns filled with lotus paste

pork spare ribs

dumplings with gao choi

rice rolls with char siu

pancit bihon noodles with BBQ pork and rice

starfruit juice and dragon fruit juice

bandung (rosewater extract and milk)

passion fruit tea

roti prata with chicken

chendol (soy milk with dandan flavored jelly and red bean) and kyuri (cucumber blended with soy milk)

fried shrimp

chicken dumplings

red jumbu from Thailand

kueh tutu (peanut and coconut)

cold lemon tea, hot milk tea, two soft-boiled eggs, and kaya toast with butter

pineapple juice and kiwi juice

collard greens, okra with shrimp, and rice

soursop juice

longan juice with longans

pancake filled with leeks and egg, pancake filled with seaweed

Old Stomping Grounds

Dinner with Beyoncé

(Note: Obviously, I did not eat all of this. Most of these plates were my relatives’. I did try the balut, though.)

Paying One’s Respects

Food and Family

Markets in Can Tho and Vinh Long

End of a Layover, Traveling, and Arrival

A Layover in Los Angeles

Mid-Month Update

Mostly, I’m posting this to see if this “sharing” thing to Twitter is going to work. But it’s also a brief update.

Camp NaNoWriMo is in full swing this month. As of this post, I’m up to 40k. The reason why I’m writing like crazy now and not pacing myself is because I’m trying to finish before I go on vacation. If I can’t get 10k done between now and Friday morning, I’ll probably keep writing while I’m waiting around in airports. Otherwise, well, I don’t plan on doing any fiction writing while on vacation.

I’ll probably do quite a bit of travel writing though. I don’t know if I’ll be able to post any of it while I’m abroad. It depends on whether or not there will be an internet connection around.

For those of you who follow my Twitter account, I’ve probably dropped enough hints in the last couple of months for you to know where I’m headed. And for those of you who have the sense to abstain from scouring through most of my (admittedly inane) tweets for the clues, I’ll leave my itinerary as a surprise.