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Kitchen Policy: No Shoes

By on February 27, 2009 in Asia, India, Photos
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[Note: This is an older post written on 18 Feb in Jaipur]On Station Road (below) the busiest restaurants serve the Rajasthani specialty, Dal Batte Churma.The Dal portion of dal batte churma is of course the...
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The Karni Mata Temple

By on February 17, 2009 in Asia, India, Photos
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This temple near Bikaner, Rajasthan is literally crawling with rats.I asked this man why he faced the rats instead of the goddess on the shrine, and he said simply to be closer to the holy...
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Cities & the Sky

By on February 12, 2009 in Asia, China, Cities, Photos, Shanghai
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Picture yourself in the urban canopy jungle. You are lost in the great concrete reef. You're drowning in the ocean of asphalt. This is transit. This is Shanghai. Picture the sky in numerous lanes, divided judiciously...
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Shanghai Nights

By on February 12, 2009 in Asia, China, Photos, Shanghai
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During the TaiPing Rebellion, ca. the 1860s, there was one infamous foreign commander among the ranks of the Qing Dynasty's Imperial Army. His name was Ward, and he was such a capable fighter and officer...
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