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Consider the parsley.

America’s salad landscape has since gotten so exciting since my childhood salad days comprised of iceberg/romaine lettuce salad mix dressed…

healthy eating, healthy food, parsley, salad

A Burning

Frustrated? Disappointed? Cynical? I can’t quite nail down how I was feeling after finishing Megha Majumdar’s A Burning. The book…

fiction, good read, MeghaMajumdar, must read, nationalbookaward, novel, reading

Drink, Eat, Exfoliate.

Eat, pray, love? Nahhhh. Let’s drink, eat, and exfoliate. I am talking about homemade soy + barley milk. Growing up,…

barley, healthy eating, healthy food, soy bean, soy milk, wellness

Tell you a Kahaani

I can’t tell you a lot. Except, watch Kahaani, a 2012 Hindi-language thriller directed by Sujoy Ghosh. My one hint…

detective, female lead, hindi movie, India, Kahaani, movie review, must watch movie, mystery, thriller

CNY in Penang, Malaysia

Growing up in the U.S. I have vague memories of celebrating the Lunar New Year. Sure, I kind of remember…

Chinese New Year, CNY customs, Kek Lok Si 極樂寺, lion dance, Lunar New Year, Malaysia, Penang, Southeast Asia, Travel

The Vanishing Half

“The hardest part about becoming someone else was deciding to. The rest was only logistics.”  Stella, The Vanishing Half I…

African American literature, book, Brit Bennett, family drama, fiction, good read, must read, novel, reading, sisterhood

Heart in a Bottle

Dear Hsieh With You readers, happy new year. What a year 2020 has been. And I think I can safely…

children's book, growing up, illustration, Oliver Jeffers, picture book, reading, The Heart and the Bottle

Totoro goes electronic..?

The title of this post is a bit misleading. Totoro has always been somewhat electronic. Joe Hisaishi My Neighbor Totoro…

animation, Castle in the Sky, electronic music, Hayao Miyazaki, Joe Hisaishi, Studio Ghibli, Totoro, Valley of the Wind

Winter Style: How to Tackle Harbin with the Ultimate Sub-Zero Dress Code

Despite growing up in sunny (Northern) California and now living in even sunnier Southern California, I seem to have a…

China, cold weather dress code, Harbin, Travel, winter style

In the time of coronavirus lockdown, chasing the romantic sublime in Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

The idea of music affecting wellbeing and emotions is at least as old as the writings of Plato: “Music gives a…

arts, Boris Giltburg, classical music, Music, Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninoff, Segerstrom Center for the Arts

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