by Rhonda Mix - Bamboo Boulevard
( April 22nd, 2012 )
I was not always good at using chopsticks. My occasional chopsticks wielding sushi experiences hadn’t prepared me for what I’d face in Taiwan. Not at all.
My first chopsticks …
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by Rhonda Mix - Bamboo Boulevard
( September 12th, 2011 )
My love affair with tofu began some years back though I didn’t eat much of it then—sampling it in tasty Thai dishes, ordering a tofu burger on occasion, torturing my brother with a tofu hot dog (I once snuck him a tofu dog instead of the ‘real’ thing. He was …
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by Rhonda Mix - Bamboo Boulevard
( August 8th, 2011 )
Established between 1889 and 1928 (with ongoing renovations) Chicago’s Chinatown has had both a rocky and
colorful history. When the first immigrants arrived in the city they experienced intense racial discrimination but soon managed to carve out a unique place for …
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