I’m sure everyone has heard about the traffic jam outside of Beijing, but did you know that it “miraculously” cleared up? The funny thing is, when Letterman started joking about it last night during the monologue and I realized how much of an embarrassment this would be to the Powers That Be in Beijing, I [...]

Three years ago I made this post with some articles about how China would be celebrating the holiday.
I also talked a bit about how our family celebrates, and talked about how I used this holiday to think about GlitterGirl’s birth family. I wonder if they are looking at the moon and wondering where she [...]

Something I missed yesterday: If you don’t know what Mongolian Spots are then you need to learn. Mongolian Spots are pretty normal in non-Caucasian babies. They are most often located on the bottom and lower back, but they can be anywhere. They usually look like bruises, often large bruises that, if they were bruises, would [...]

There are a few things that new parents need to be aware of when their baby is first placed in their arms in China. Ways the baby has been raised that are different than the way Americans and (I assume) most Europeans will raise the child. If you don’t understand these things, life is going [...]

I hadn’t planned on turning this into a long term series, but that’s kind of happened. If you’re just tuning in you can read the first post in the series here and then keep hitting the link at the top right of each post to get to the next post in the series.
The first tradition [...]

  Because I don’t think you can figure out how to make jiaozi from just reading the recipe, I found a few youtube videos showing how to make them. Everyone’s technique is just a little different, so I’m showing several of them.
  
This guy crimps both sides at once. This keeps filling from squirting out the left [...]