Elm bark noodles 榆皮面

The noodles didn’t taste like much, and felt somehow inorganic. Nor was their brief stay in my gut a particularly pleasant one.

Beijing coronavirus updates

new policies in the capital

Beijing’s on lockdown, so what’s for dinner?

Traffic in Beijing has stopped, and everyone is afraid to leave the house.

So what are people eating?

Beijing in a time of coronavirus

In 2003, I had just started working at the National University of Singapore, and not long after that, something else came to Singapore–SARS.