settling back in
It’s nice to be getting settled back into my home in Shanghai, after a longer-than-usual absence. I haven’t been keeping an overly busy schedule, but have managed to do several things to make life here move along smoothly for me.
Day 1 — getting the bed set up for the extremely cold weather, restocking the pantry, numerous phone calls, cai bao and dou jiang for lunch, beef pao mo for dinner, meeting up with friends for a late night pot of tea and a chat
Day 2 — lunch with friends (at our favorite dong bei spot), clean up the bicycle to just the right degree (not too dirty to touch, not so clean as to attract the attention of thieves), lots of reading, soup for dinner after such a heavy lunch, and late night meeting up with friends
Day 3 — popping by the office to check up the status of a few jobs that I’ve been working on while I was away (due out for publication soon), nian gao for lunch, pancakes for dinner, and another late night outing with friends
Still several things to get caught up on, of course. I mean, I haven’t even had my favorite spicy fish head yet…
Sounds like you have hit the ground running. I hope you get a spicy fish head if that is what makes you happy–I’ll stick to the pancakes!
Not sure you’d like the pancakes. That’s spring onions and spicy chili he’s putting on them….
I think you’re setting a record of the number of days you’ve gone without eating fish heads.
Malcolm
You might be right, Malcolm. And it’s only because I’ve been on antibiotics and not had much of an appetite for the really spicy stuff this past week.
I just finished the course of the medicine….
sick? I have been taking this week to be LAZY! hopefully getting fully over the jet lag. though I think I am just becoming lazy!
I’m not sick, just had antibiotics for the rash on my hand. The medicine was pretty hard on the stomach.
The day you become lazy, the sun will rise in the west.
Ha! Ha! Visit Lazy anytime at my place, cos’ you definitely won’t find her/ him at Silken’s!
No kidding!
I went yesterday for the Hunan fish head at my favorite place — a little hole in the wall that is a half hour journey from my place by bus. Sadly, it has now closed down!!! I will have to find a new place that does it well. (Can find it anywhere, but that was the BEST.)