Food Photo Friday: Zongzi

Food Photo Friday: Zongzi

To celebrate the upcoming Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, I thought I’d share the festival’s most famous food: zongzi. Zongzi is a sticky rice dumpling with a sweet filling wrapped in bamboo reeds or banana leaves. It is then tied into a triangular shape and steamed. A lot of Chinese people like to eat zongzi drizzled in honey, which is […]

A Day in Lhasa

A Day in Lhasa

This post is a continuation of Black Market Train Tickets, where I chronicle my month-long trip through Qinghai, Tibet, Nepal, Hong Kong and Guangzhou! Back in Qinghai, Lumbum had emailed me telling us that we were visiting Lhasa during a special time: the Yogurt Festival! He didn’t tell us exactly what it was, but it sounded awesome. A […]