Tag Archives: night market

Over the Counter and Below the Equator

After a long, humid, shirt-wringing kind of day in Jakarta, Indonesia, I craved street food.   But really, that could be said about every day in Jakarta.  It’s as good an excuse as any to eat with reckless abandon. Every now … Continue reading

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Northwestern Chinese Edibles in Ürümqi (حلال‎ , fo’ sho’)

A visit to Ürümqi (a city in Xinjiang, in northwestern China) was supposed to be a sort of homecoming  (Link thanks to china.notspecial.org-that site and this blog post oughta be fun for the Great Firewall).  Er, to clarify, many of … Continue reading

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