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		<title>Fly away from this concrete jungle with me, will you ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was pretty intent on pecking at both sneakers. This photo was taken at about the same time it started pecking at the second sneaker. I&#8217;ve recently been so enamored with this collage by Anthony Zinonos that I&#8217;m actually using it as my MacBook wallpaper. Which makes it rather surprising that I failed to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2561</link>
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		<title>Typography China #40</title>
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		<title>Typography China #39</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hair salon&#8230; or not ?]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2552</link>
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		<title>Typography China #38</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shanghainese staples that you&#8217;ll see everywhere streetside once you get out of the tourist zones though in my opinion, nothing beats mee pok tah. Any day.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2544</link>
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		<title>Typography China #37</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2541</link>
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		<title>Typography China #36</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2538</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a massive homebody in recent weekends. Likewise, this weekend was about doing the laundry on Saturday, vacuuming/ mopping the floor on Sunday, relaxing some then working some and stocking up on groceries. We stopped by the florist and I&#8217;m really glad these flowers came home with us.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2525</link>
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		<title>Typography China #35</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2516</link>
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		<title>Typography China #34</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2514</link>
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		<title>Typography China #33</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2510</link>
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		<title>Typography China #32</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wondered about the people behind these chalk-written propaganda messages. Is it those old folks with red armbands sitting on their little stools in the morning sun or chain-smoking men strolling about the neighborhood at dusk ?]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2495</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we&#8217;ve found the perfect French restaurant in Hong Kong (well actually my mom found it and she has been nagging us to go check it out since we arrived). It&#8217;s non-pretentious and serves delicious home style food, which already says a lot. I had my very first steamed whole artichoke and enjoyed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2477</link>
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		<title>Typography China #31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More commonly known as the apartment block where famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang lived for a number of years.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2472</link>
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		<title>Typography China #30</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2467</link>
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		<title>Typography China #29</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2464</link>
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		<title>Typography China #28</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2461</link>
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		<title>Typography China #27</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2412</link>
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		<title>Like sands through the hourglass so are the days of our lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rather impromptu reunion of sorts with the students&#8217; council guys, it&#8217;s slightly creepy how these pictures exude quite a timeless feel. Put us back in uniforms and we&#8217;ll look no different from 10 years (!) back. Also funny how back in those days, the hawker centre was the last place I would suggest when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2444</link>
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		<title>At least once in your life you must come to Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singapore 1960 Venue: National Museum of Singapore Date: 3 June 2010 &#8211; 22 August 2010 Time: 10am &#8211; 6pm Admission: Free]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2432</link>
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		<title>Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the name Cai Guo-Qiang rings a bell, it may be because he recently curated &#8220;Peasant da Vincis&#8221;, an impressive showcase of Chinese peasant inventions, at the equally impressive Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. &#8220;Head On&#8221; was Cai&#8217;s earlier work, first exhibited in 2006 at the Deutsche Guggenheim as his debut solo show in Germany. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2414</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #35</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1758</link>
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		<title>Ningxia with the sister</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video: 547 photos shot on a Canon PowerShot G10 Music: Taking Wing by Daedelus Not long after my last day at work, I went on a hastily-planned backpacking trip with the sister. It was the first time we traveled together, just the two of us, and I was anxious to show her 36-hour train journeys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2388</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #34</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1756</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #33</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1754</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #32</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1752</link>
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		<title>Summer like it should be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video: 1,131 photos shot on a Canon PowerShot G10 Music: Trace a Line by Au Revoir Simone Experimenting for the first time with a new medium in the hope of more timely posts. I sure had a lot of fun doing it. Hope you like it.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2362</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An extra incentive to drink milk, considering they come in such lovely old school bottles. Hong Kong, the land of fishball mee pok soups. Like I said, land of fishball mee pok soups. A pity they aren&#8217;t served with red chilli slices in soy sauce though.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2173</link>
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		<title>Thirst that only bottomless iced coffee could quench</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello y&#8217;all, I&#8217;m back in Hong Kong, turns out it&#8217;s just as sweltering HOT everywhere. Asia is the clear winner though, with its decent air conditioning infrastructure (loosely speaking as I&#8217;m only looking at Hong Kong and Singapore). Such a lifesaver ! I&#8217;ve had a good trip cramped full of homecooked meals, thrift (and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[p/s Updates will likely be very sporadic over the next two weeks as we are bound for Europe tonight. Looking forward to spending time with the family and attending a wedding in South East England, but first I should probably get started on packing that suitcase&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1750</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #30</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1748</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #29</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1746</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #28</title>
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		<title>Dragon Boat Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday marked a one-day mid-week siesta for Hong Kong as it celebrates this year&#8217;s Dragon Boat Festival. We appropriately spent the afternoon at Stanley Beach watching the dragon boat races and bustling crowds. I&#8217;d promised mom I would eat a rice dumpling but it completely slipped my mind so I guess I&#8217;ll have to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expo #4: On the Iran Pavilion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, an aphorism by famed Persian poet Saadi at the entrance. Then a showcase of the country&#8217;s technology advancements&#8230; &#8230; industrial progress&#8230; &#8230; and natural resources. There was also a little booth set up to attract foreign investment, the sort that materializes at non-trade expositions. But the highlight of the pavilion has got to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2287</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s what you get for spreading the gospel of The IT Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone&#8217;s idea of a birthday present.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2273</link>
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		<title>Expo #3: On the DPRK Pavilion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right next to the Iran Pavilion, nice touch. Cross the pretend bridge to view the pretend Juche Tower and pretend Pyongyang cityscape. I spoke to a North Korean for the first time. Not surprising that she could speak reasonably alright English and Mandarin. We bought a couple of books so we have officially contributed moolah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2245</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll miss you, Papi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[19 December 1921 &#8211; 10 June 2010]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2246</link>
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		<title>Expo #2: On Chinese visitors</title>
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		<title>Expo #1: On architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Headed to the Expo during my last week in Shanghai because my sister was in town. Surprisingly, it didn&#8217;t turn out half as bad as I&#8217;d expected. It was rather enjoyable partly because we refused to join the ridiculous two/three-hour queues to enter popular pavilions (the longest we&#8217;d queued that day: five minutes for Iran) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2218</link>
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		<title>Look what has arrived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The (very awesome) farewell/ wedding gift from our good friends that was separately shipped a few days after the packers had gone. At last check, our gazillion boxes of pots and pans, books and clothes are still stranded at a port in Shanghai. Gee, thanks.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2203</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #27</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1742</link>
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		<title>21 years on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was seven years old in 1989 and yet I remembered seeing the Tank Man on telly. It left such an impression that when I finally stood at the square in 2004 (my first time in China at a ripe old age of 22), I was overwhelmed by the historical significance of being actually there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2187</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #26</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1740</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot pot highlights: KY&#8217;s refreshing pea shoots and mango salad and her mom&#8217;s oh-so-spicy chilli sauce. Kidney bean, mushroom and pan-fried salmon linguini for two. Made the most of an all-you-can-eat Japanese dinner on a school night.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1967</link>
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		<title>Disembarked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not in my top form last Saturday as I sneezed my way from Shanghai to Hong Kong, home for the next couple of years. Being sick-ish in Hong Kong made me feel claustrophobic for the first time. Fingers crossed it won&#8217;t happen again. On a cheerier note, wireless internet connection in the apartment was set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2162</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #25</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1738</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #24</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1736</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #23</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1734</link>
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		<title>Typography China #26</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1720</link>
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		<title>Typography China #25</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1718</link>
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		<title>Ningxia calling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aiya, Chaozhou and Shantou photos still on the backlog but I&#8217;m off to Ningxia via 36-hour train ride with the sister for a week. My remaining trickle of readers, please don&#8217;t ditch me just yet.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2145</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the best Korean we&#8217;ve had&#8230; &#8230; but I think it is good enough given its proximity to home. No waitress to help us with the cooking so sore hands after all that tongs gripping and meat flipping. Finally tried crab xiaolongbao&#8217;s, the mothership of them all. Very tasty and worth every bit of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1965</link>
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		<title>Typography Hong Kong #3</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2109</link>
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		<title>Typography Hong Kong #2</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2107</link>
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		<title>Typography Hong Kong #1</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2105</link>
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		<title>Descending towards Shanghai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sighted on our flight from Hong Kong. Wondering if this is Changxing Island ?]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2118</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong in two days (or more strictly, 1.5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of walking. J tricked us into walking from Wan Chai to Causeway Bay for dinner. His lure: the &#8220;It&#8217;s just right in front&#8221; line. J got his karmic retribution when I accidentally ate his bowl of satay beef noodles the next day. In my defense, the broth doesn&#8217;t taste satayish and he had asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2115</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekend started early as we left for Hong Kong on Thursday night, zipping about Mid Levels and Wanchai for most of our time in Hong Kong. Fingers crossed for that lovely apartment in Wan Chai which overlooks the quaintest neatly put-together rooftop garden. Back in Shanghai, we popped by a tiny izakaya for some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2100</link>
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		<title>Life of the fake jet setter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was in Shantou and Chaozhou for most of the week past tracing my roots. Good times and awesome food, tons of photos waiting to be uploaded. Back in Shanghai for a day and now trippin&#8217; about in Hong Kong for two days. Be back soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2091</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #22</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1732</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #21</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1730</link>
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		<title>What I wore yesterday #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polka dots with the trusty oversized military jacket for an outfit that doesn&#8217;t require too much thought.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2082</link>
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		<title>Conversation overheard at lunch yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“我最喜欢我爸做的饭。” That coming from a conversation between two trendy-looking post-90s Chinese boys, I couldn&#8217;t help but started paying attention to what they were saying as it was surprisingly heartfelt. “我一点都不想家，还比较想家里的狗。” The conversation took a turn for something a little more unexpected when one of the boys talked about how he grew to be rather independent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2057</link>
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		<title>Cards for keeps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a soft spot for well-designed business cards. Pocketed these two from my most recent trip back to Singapore.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=2034</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #20</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1588</link>
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		<title>What I wore yesterday #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liking how the weave belt added more shape and spunk to this secondhand dress I&#8217;d thrifted in France. Paired with dark grey thermal leggings as the weather is still a little too cold for bare legs.]]></description>
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		<title>On probably the sunniest day so far this year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found ourselves at the Shanghai Botanical Garden, even then the skies turned somewhat grey not too long after. We had intended to head to Chongming Island for a leisurely day trip but the throngs of people queuing to buy ferry tickets scared us off. Look what a last minute change of plans brought us &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1987</link>
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		<title>Big changes are coming this way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; in every direction and on every front, which may explain why I&#8217;ve been feeling uninspired of late but that is no excuse, I need to get my momentum back again. Throw in a few upcoming trips: Going down south in search of my roots, visit ancestral hometowns for the first time and see where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1995</link>
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		<title>Cheap digs at Yuyuan signages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought Obama Entertainment Club is the pits. Actually, this isn&#8217;t so bad. I mean, it could have been worse.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1969</link>
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		<title>Lust, caution</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1948</link>
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		<title>夫妻肺片</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently rekindled my love for this fiery hot and savory mix-it-up streetside snack which originated from Sichuan Province. KY first introduced me to it a few years ago when we were flatmates. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a stall selling the snack and guess what, I couldn&#8217;t resist. It&#8217;s an easy process: Let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1963</link>
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		<title>Going local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Explored a bit of the neighborhood on our way out a few weekends ago. There&#8217;s always something new somewhere, round a corner or down the next street. I wish Singapore can be a little like that sometimes. Pet chicken let out for a walk. A little girl waiting for her friends. Here they come, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1951</link>
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		<title>Will spring ever come ?</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1945</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #19</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1587</link>
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		<title>Takes the cake</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1938</link>
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		<title>Change we can !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rather fascinating editorial in the March 2010 issue of iLook which has Chinese model Li Zheng do a playful take on symmetry. Made me look more than twice. On hindsight, I think it may be because she was styled to resemble an inflatable doll, no ?]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1879</link>
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		<title>Eating out in Singapore</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1888</link>
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		<title>Chinese papercutting with Shanghainese characteristics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of my favorite paper cut-outs by famed Shanghai-based papercutting master Li Shoubai. I might just drop by his gallery/store this afternoon to check them out in person.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1919</link>
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		<title>Riverside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never knew Sir Stamford Raffles had such muscular calves. The view from the second floor of the Old Parliament House. The Old Parliament House was actually closed that particular day but we were allowed to venture to the second floor on basis of checking out an event venue. Curiosity got the better of me because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1886</link>
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		<title>Singapore&#8217;s Malay-Arab quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some snaps of the not so Arab/ Malay side of Kampong Glam. I always make an effort to visit the area every time I&#8217;m back, no different this time, and I love seeing how it is evolving bit by bit. A little disappointed that House of Japan is no more though. I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1891</link>
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		<title>Singa the Lion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A much welcomed revival ? I almost bought a Singa the Lion t-shirt this time in Singapore but didn&#8217;t because I couldn&#8217;t convince myself to wear a ringer T-shirt (much less one that has black ribbing on dark grey). I suppose I will make do with this photo instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1890</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #18</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1586</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #17</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1585</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #16</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1584</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singaporeans enjoy spicy dips. Sounds like an understatement and it is. As much as the term &#8216;spicy dip&#8217; brings to mind a non-eventful saucer&#8217;s worth of chilli-based condiment, it is anything but that in Singapore. Not to mention we also love sliced chilli in soy sauce, which surely deserves a post of its own. Just offhand, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1659</link>
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		<title>2902</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was asked yesterday: &#8220;How come your blog seems delayed ? Until now still posting SG related stuff ?&#8221; Whoops, I&#8217;ve already posted the bulk of it. Be patient with me, just a little more. Trying to hang on to memories of good times in Singapore what ! Speaking of which, here&#8217;s how I spent one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1861</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #15</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1582</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good girlfriend and good Indian vegetarian grub, although to be frank, I was also eyeing the delicious-looking spicy non-Vegetarian options ordered by diners next table.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1657</link>
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		<title>What not to like about this side of Singapore ?</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1803</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mommy&#8217;s take on the hotpot we&#8217;ve come to associate Chinese New Year with over the years. Tasty MSG-free meat broth (made from scratch, not from a bottle) and spicy home-made dipping sauce (non too finely-chopped garlic and chilli in calamansi juice, light soy sauce and vinegar) guaranteed. Inspirasi mee soto, how I&#8217;ve missed you so. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1655</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister took me to get ayam penyet in the unsuspecting bowels of Lucky Plaza. Indonesian food can&#8217;t get any better than this, no ? (Not that I&#8217;ve had alot.) The Soh sisters also went to get their mee kuah fix. It&#8217;s so spicy but it&#8217;s oh so so good. I swear by the mee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1653</link>
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		<title>This is how living in the East feels like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waiting for the elevator after visiting my aunt and uncle. You have been instructed&#8230; &#8230; to stand behind the yellow line. How many of us know that MRT in Chinese is 大众快速交通 ? To be fair no one says that in everyday use, 地铁 it is (even though it isn&#8217;t even underground half the time). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1806</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #14</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1581</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #13</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1580</link>
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		<title>Seven treasures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Postcard-worthy. It is actually the only part of Qibao resembling its more famous water town cousins elsewhere in eastern China. Argh. Way too many people for our liking. Being squashed by the crowds in fake ancient streets lined by shops selling the same ubiquitous junk found in restored ancient towns across China isn&#8217;t our idea of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1771</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a quiet dinner in a dimly lit and pleasant restaurant right smack in the middle of the nightlife buzz on a Saturday night. J started wearing a fake wedding band over the weekend. I think it might have come from a bottle of wine we&#8217;d opened months back. I&#8217;m amused that he doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1760</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #12</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1579</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to eat this for lunch almost everyday at the university cafeteria. I guess you can say I&#8217;m rather predictable with food I love. Every year, on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, mommy prepares a stir-fried dish comprising of seven types of vegetables. There are one or two types that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1644</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Potluck at the annual family get-together. Mommy&#8217;s contribution was a large pot of braised pork knuckles with sea cucumber and mushrooms. Ready, get set&#8230; &#8230; and go ! Don&#8217;t forget to say out loud all the auspicious wishes you can think of as you toss the yusheng.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1638</link>
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		<title>Truly Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No more dim sum. Guess how fast this restaurant cleared out when the parking inspectors popped by. Lo hei in da house ! Sleepy newborns are quite a handful. Big brother. Forlorn because we are on the wrong side of the fence. Oh wait, what are those things near the pails ? Sleepyhead puppies, hah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1621</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breakfast. Not typical. Penne and chicken breast. Not my favorite cut of the chicken. It&#8217;s tough to photograph soups, even when they are actually very delicious. Like this one J made because vegetable soups (and chicken noodle soups too) are the best food for a sickly bird. On a food-related note, no idea why but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1608</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoever invented spicy clams ought to be rewarded with many conch glasses&#8217; worth of iced lemon tea. Spicy at home this time, Thai red curry from the bottle (or more accurately, pack). Sometimes, non spicy can be good too, like in penne with tuna and peas.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1604</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #11</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1578</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still sick so I pretty much canceled on everything except for two separate birthday feastings for four friends over the weekend. I also caught up with some much-needed readings and drank a ton of soups. Been counting on self-medication and now starting on home remedies courtesy of J&#8217;s grandma&#8230; getting desperate because all the signs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1595</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #10</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1577</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #9</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1575</link>
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		<title>Another reason why I miss Taiwanese variety shows</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1564</link>
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		<title>La caroleuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;La caroleuse&#8217; is actually part of a larger series by Shanghainese artist Zhou Tiehai entitled &#8216;Desserts&#8217;, comprising of invented and re-invented French desserts such as diplomate, juge, ministre, prof, commissaire, sycophante, caroleuse, blancheresse and financier. We browsed the 400 pieces that were on display and I think it would have been more interesting for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1550</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a number of random photos from the weekend just past. I&#8217;m guilty of a massive backlog of photos from Singapore. I&#8217;ll be organizing and posting them up soon, I promise. On Saturday we reached the Shanghai Art Museum at 4pm for the Marc Riboud retrospective, turns out the museum closes at 4. A chance detour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1540</link>
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		<title>ACM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statues of Burmese monks, if I don&#8217;t remember wrongly. Interesting presentation of artefacts focused on shadowplay. Intricate glazed figurines of Taoist gods&#8230; &#8230; and demons in elaborate ceremonial outfits. Memory trippin&#8217; back to simple childhood joys. Teeheehee ! Best out-of-service sign I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Made me smile. This reminds me of the Shedu&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1535</link>
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		<title>Feeding off that platform sandals obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So obsessed with platform sandals in recent weeks that I painstakingly went through ALL the entries in elle shoe diary looking for them. These three are my favorites, with the Pierre Hardy being my favoritest pair of the lot. Sigh, a girl can dream, can&#8217;t she ? On a separate note, I wonder how fashion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1525</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s no place like home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back in Shanghai as such I have finally framed and put up the recently-purchased prints in a lovely corner. I stumbled upon the bigger print, Sue by Madrid-based illustrator and designer Blanca Gómez at rockstar while I got the smaller gocco print by Scottish illustrator Jen Collins on Etsy. Despite being not able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1511</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #8</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1458</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #7</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1456</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duck rice and laksa with the family for lunch. As a student I would have never gone to hawker centres if I was eating out with friends. Nowadays I love meeting up with friends at hawker centres. The atmosphere, variety of food, good food (I actually think Malaysia does it better but hey we&#8217;re in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1474</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More pampering from mommy. As with family tradition, we begin the new year with a vegetarian meal. (Bak kwa here I come after this.) For dessert we have dumplings, something I usually eat out of obligation (i.e. because mommy says eat !). No different this time. A good spread of bak kut teh, steamed prawns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1471</link>
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		<title>Winter Flags (East Village, New York)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like this print by Youngna Park so much I was on the brink of making it my first 20&#215;200 purchase. The thought of chippy triangle flags brightening up the room minus the hassle of stringing them on the walls&#8230; I can already picture the print in a white frame. But I had to let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1486</link>
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		<title>East Coast Park</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1482</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #6</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1454</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #5</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1452</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #4</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1448</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #3</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1446</link>
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		<title>I say skip the food and go straight for the beers</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1464</link>
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		<title>Chalet redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Peranakan family friends invited us one evening to join them at their barbecue. All the food was painstakingly prepared by the females in the family&#8230; which can only mean one thing: miam-miam ! I tried bakwan kepiting for the first time and it was delicious ! Unfortunately the dish took hours to prepare &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1429</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #2</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1404</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mommy&#8217;s fried noodles and soy milk for breakfast. A reunion lunch instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1400</link>
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		<title>Su-fleur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We bought our first art print the other day. I&#8217;d been eyeing Blanca Gómez&#8216;s lovely illustrations for some time but I&#8217;ve never come across this particular one before. Need to go look for a suitable frame next !]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1415</link>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blue skies and sunshine, I&#8217;m happy to be back. Even if it means waiting approximately 30 minutes for our bus today.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1407</link>
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		<title>Typography Singapore #1</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1402</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My attempt at a soupy light meal. I like it but also found out that while J hearts sashimi, sushi and all other aspects of Japanese cuisine, soba and udon are the two things he is indifferent about. Pork slices on a bed of French beans with a light mushroom, carrot and onion sauce. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1305</link>
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		<title>Kånken Mini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Made by Swedish outdoor equipment company Fjällräven (Swedish for &#8216;arctic fox&#8217;), I admit the Kånken Mini does feed off my teenage fascination with the randoseru and actually makes for a more practical substitute. While the mini backpack comes in a plenitude of colors, I think this one has got to be my favorite. What about you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1233</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello it&#8217;s the last weekend before I&#8217;m headed for home. Yippeee, (I&#8217;m stressed with final weekend to-dos but I&#8217;m also) excited ! Mokkos with some friends after the company CNY dinner, topped off with a small serving of malatang before we parted ways into the night. Found suitable bedroom slippers for mommy at the funny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1374</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like having the option of eating burgers as a salad&#8230; &#8230; and eating blanched green peas for breakfast. On other days, I eat like a king. I&#8217;ve learnt that sometimes my dessert-making efforts don&#8217;t turn out as delicious as they look. Served in gold gilded dessert bowls we&#8217;d received as a gift, I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1242</link>
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		<title>Typography China #24</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1240</link>
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		<title>Greeting cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something about the design of Chinese envelopes that rings back to old-fashioned ways of the past, despite my inability to write on them correctly. There are two postal code fields and I know they are respectively for the mailing and return addresses but I&#8217;m not sure which goes where so I just slink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1353</link>
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		<title>A step-by-step guide to superhuman transformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also known as the day a number of us ate dog meat by accident.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1347</link>
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		<title>Typography China #23</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1238</link>
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		<title>Typography China #22</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1235</link>
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		<title>Typography China #21</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1184</link>
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		<title>Typography China #20</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1105</link>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s greetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J received a very lovely new year card the other day. Did I tell you I like pop-up cards very much ? They are always so magical !]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1301</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here you go, a hi-carb dinner for the lazy, hah ! Pork cutlet on a bed of spaghetti. No vegetables. I learnt that bouillabaisse is just the most well-known version of the soupe de poisson. More fish, French style. A simple dinner of pan-fried salmon, greens and rice with Furikake sprinklings.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1186</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was supposed to write Chinese New Year cards and get them in order for mailing out but I didn&#8217;t. Look who&#8217;s on the cover of a local rag. Ho ho Polly furry cakes I&#8217;m sorry I called you pangpang because you don&#8217;t seem to like me very much anymore. Eating by myself at home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1298</link>
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		<title>Russia edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian borscht, mushrooms cooked in vodka and plenty of cheap Russian and Ukranian vodkas. More dancing next time !]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1307</link>
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		<title>A Changing Shanghai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is definitely a book I&#8217;ve always wanted but curiously didn&#8217;t end up buying in the end. I first came across it in a bookstore on Fuzhou Lu about two to three years back. The photos are taken about 20 years apart, first by Xu Xixian and later by his son. While it is true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1228</link>
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		<title>Typography China #19</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1103</link>
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		<title>Typography China #18</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1036</link>
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		<title>Typography China #17</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1034</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is beyond logical comprehension that J does not share our love for hangover noodles, otherwise known as Yunnan guoqiao rice noodles (云南过桥米线) to everybody else in China. Instead dumplings are more his kind of thing, such as these ones in fermented rice wine (酒酿丸子).  I prefer to soak in the lovely atmosphere of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1113</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at the gym, twice. Doing backward threadmill walking on incline which borders on ridiculity for the uninformed. Slipped on my pair of embroidered Chinese Mary Janes and off we went browsing wedding bands for the first and last time in China. Yellow gold is as traditional as wedding bands ought to be. Witnessed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1244</link>
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		<title>Kitchen friends for a long long time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had the opportunity to pop by a kitchenware store to do more than just window shopping thanks to J&#8217;s friends from work who recently gifted us with a voucher. I&#8217;ve been mucking about in the kitchen sans recipes most of the time. Rather than more recipes, I think this is exactly what I need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typography China #16</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1032</link>
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		<title>Typography China #15</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1030</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garlic shoots and beef cubes with rice for breakfast. My mommy would be proud. A fun experimentation with leek and sweet potatoes in creamy butter sauce which goes surprisingly well with pork cutlets. I&#8217;m never looking at sweet potatoes the same way again.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1115</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something mild, like Cantonese style pork and century egg porridge&#8230; &#8230; and something fiery spicy. A small portion of the Chongqing meal that was way too spicy, even for me. Breakfast of champions.]]></description>
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		<title>Impossible stilettos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can someone enlighten me on the concept behind this Air France print ad ? I assure you the copy doesn&#8217;t give a clue either.]]></description>
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		<title>In the office/ out of office</title>
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		<title>Typography China #14</title>
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		<title>Food frenzy #10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweet potatoes, champignon de Paris and broccoli for lunch. Off to the Malaysian restaurant to satiate some Singaporean cravings. Heh, trust me I wasn&#8217;t the one with the cravings this time. Frozen berries swirled in yoghurt. I bought frozen berries for the first time and they turned out unbelievably sour. So they are still in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1108</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The perfect fuss-free Christmas eve dinner is one where you order roast chicken and roast potatoes from the best rotisserie in town, finished off with a chocolate fudge banana cake you picked up on the way home from work. I chanced upon some Bombay ducks in the local market and ended up craving for it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1018</link>
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		<title>How to be good dinner guests in Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came up over dinner the other weekend at our German friends&#8217; apartment. Seems like in Germany, it is better to be slightly early than late. In Switzerland, the polite thing to do is to arrive on the dot whereas in France it is considered most impolite to arrive punctual, an even bigger no-no would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1100</link>
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		<title>Polyrhythms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[London-trained Australian designer Tina Kalivas has managed to combine structure and African geometry into a refreshing explosion of timeless outfits. These two are my favorite pieces from her Polyrhythms collection. Look, how wearable they are. I&#8217;m wowed. A little more on Kalivas here and here. By the way, she has a fantastic Web site too &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1137</link>
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		<title>Typography China #13</title>
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		<title>On the second day of the new decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found an alternate use for road signs. We took a small stroll through the curio market and bumped into J&#8217;s coworker and her husband. I saw chippy feathered creatures my father used to have when I was young. I saw a kitty that reminded me of this kitty. I peeked into a kid&#8217;s wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the first day of the new decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I looked at new high-rise buildings in the midst of construction. I was all piled up in clothes and wore sensible footwear in winter for the first time in years. Most restaurants were closed, even in this part of the world where capitalism is king. I stumbled upon a gallery I wanted to go into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food frenzy #8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lugging 12 bottles of wine with zero taxi in sight, I suppose it&#8217;s only right to get dinner early and hope for better luck with taxis after. No I didn&#8217;t make this and trust me, it tastes as good as it looks. Goes best with red sauce and a dash of Tabasco. The restaurant was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=985</link>
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		<title>Typography China #12</title>
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		<title>Typography China #11</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1022</link>
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		<title>Happy 2010 !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year we had a hard time finding a taxi after the bund festivities and had to walk home in the freezing cold. This year we avoided the crowds and made sure to venture to venues walking distance from home. We made a surprise detour at the last minute and the last thing I learnt about J [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunset in Paris. A meal that is perhaps just as an excuse to drink some more wine. Full of golden, shiny things. This was the only pastry I&#8217;d eaten during my stay in France. The big scruffy dog that got everyone&#8217;s attention. I wonder which breed this is. Chanced upon this store on our way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt a little ill and slept in. A late lunch with Mommy D before I set out to the Musée du Quai Branly. I&#8217;d wanted to head to the Catacombes but they were closed. Wavy tiled walls. Fascinated with this lovely Bedouin coin face veil that must not have been as lovely for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d never known the Tour Eiffel would get all twinkly sparkly for five minutes every hour at night. We watched it from the balcony of our friends&#8217; apartment, it was pretty. A simple but delicious lunch at home. Mommy and her two boys, framed. Found an old ID photo. Someone played tour guide for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=853</link>
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		<title>Kids</title>
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		<title>Bonjour France #8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought the little ones notepads and assorted writing materials. Don&#8217;t ask me why she was looking so forlorn. A quiet moment in the mirror before running off again. Good times&#8230; &#8230; And happy days relived ! A sink of freshness. I still dream about these oysters. They&#8217;ve set an impeccable standard for future oysters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=850</link>
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		<title>Typography China #10</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=1020</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just another day in China on our way home from the church. Plenty of little furry animals, creepy twirly ribbonfish and seems like tis&#8217; the season for drying fish. We saw these huuge fishes strung up by the sidewalks everywhere !]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were at the market on Saturday morning to pick up ingredients for lunch. An ocean-themed signboard is always a welcome addition at any seafood shop. I didn&#8217;t know these would later turn out to be the tastiest oysters I&#8217;ve ever had. Grumpy St. Pierre. Grmmmpf ! Plastic can buy you cheese. The combination of chalkboards and fresh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=845</link>
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		<title>Typography China #9</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=992</link>
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		<title>Typography China #8</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=989</link>
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		<title>Beef, two ways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First course: Marinated with soy sauce, black pepper, Worchestershire sauce and Tabasco. Served with mushrooms and onion. Second course: Marinated with mirin and salt. Served with banana, flavored with ground cinnamon on the stove top.]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not too large a selection of destinations from this railway station. It may be small but to me it is the prettiest railway station in all of France. You know you are a parent if you have random toys in the car. This little one likes to draw&#8230; &#8230; And this little one likes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bunch of keys no more</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=887</link>
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		<title>Mazel tov ! Mazel tov !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday with J&#8217;s lovely colleagues who were in town for a few days. Champagne, tasty Japanese food and plenty of laughs over the fact that a cab driver had mistaken them to be J&#8217;s parents.]]></description>
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		<title>Food frenzy #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what if it is not as hip and old-school, fishball noodles and wanton noodles never run out and we never need to queue. Tsui Wah is where I&#8217;ll turn to for comfort delicious Canto food and also when I crave for mommy&#8217;s noodles. Fishball noodles here have my stamp of approval. Steak tenderloins are perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect dress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was watching an old episode of Gossip Girl and I spotted this dress Blair Waldorf was wearing. It is beyond lovely &#8211; formal yet with a gorgeous surprise detail in the back ! It&#8217;s great for everything, I want it, but I&#8217;ve googled to no avail thus far. Anyone knows anything else ?]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=861</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pasta as we know it&#8230; &#8230; and fusion pasta as we don&#8217;t. Fruit yoghurt sprinkled with crunchy hazelnut bits.]]></description>
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		<title>Food frenzy #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More fast food. Penne with beef, carrots, onion and golden mushroom in a peppery sauce one week night. Yoghurt and Hainan papaya for dessert. Thank god for the yoghurt which made the papaya slightly more edible. Note to self: Don&#8217;t buy Hainan papaya ever, ever again. I never knew that bad papayas exist, now I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=702</link>
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		<title>Heart coin purse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope one day they will make a moustache purse too.]]></description>
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		<title>Food frenzy #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a non-touristy eatery near J&#8217;s apartment with the most delectable xiaolongbaos sans queues. Awesome. I was feeling experimental and tried the duck blood soup. Not so awesome. All your nutritional needs for the day &#8211; carbs, protein, vitamins and fibre &#8211; checked. I like my chicken wings with a dash of lime, miam ! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing of lovely memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a children&#8217;s tee from this shop for myself which actually fits better than the women&#8217;s cut. This is my first time in Beijing during the winter. It was indeed really cold. Not to be missed in any Beijing winter, lamb hot pot (涮羊肉) and tripe (爆肚). They were delicious that day but frankly I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=818</link>
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		<title>Pour avoir et tenir de ce jour vers l&#8217;avant</title>
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		<title>Street art in Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many, and everywhere. The ones that made the most impression were the graffiti by the train and metro tracks which disappeared too fast out of my line of vision for me to capture. To many, Paris is the city of romance but Paris will always be the city of graffiti (and other forms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typography China #7</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=453</link>
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		<title>Bonjour France #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open window, not mine. Crossing the Seine. It wouldn&#8217;t be Paris if not for the sharply-angled buildings, no ? Spotted some concrete sunbathers on our way to meet F. More of the Seine. A vegetable plot too ? A little break in the shade. The boys told me there used to be little boats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And he didn&#8217;t suspect a thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So J had his birthday Thursday last week and it was rather uneventful given that I was in the midst of my back ordeal and he was juggling a stressful week at work and making sure I wasn&#8217;t worrying my socks off. I decided to heck it and planned for a surprise dinner and drinks over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2x TOMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you need one more reason to justify your purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need with every pair purchased. I suppose I&#8217;m currently feeling the high-tops and greys. I&#8217;ve never owned a pair of high-tops before, is this the beginning of a new era ?]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in Paris, back at home. Leafy. An art installation filled with all things yellow. Doesn&#8217;t this resemble a painting, with brushstrokes of dark green on cream ? I left Kulte empty-handed. Charming little fairy tale finger puppets. The falafel was yummy but the chilli sauce left a more memorable impression: surprisingly good, quite like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=611</link>
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		<title>Street art in Antibes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw relatively less street art in Antibes compared to other parts of France where I was at. Most likely because Antibes is a posh vacation town in the French Riveria replete with old geezers in matching white outfits idling their retirement away, not exactly the demographic group known for its graffiti antics eh.]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice for a few hours because we needed to change trains to Montpellier. Definitely among the loveliest beaches I&#8217;ve seen. Changing trains in Marseille. Where are all the old-school photo booths ? At least we haven&#8217;t lost the chalkboards&#8230; yet ! Along one of the small streets outside Université Montpellier I. Side-by-side laundromat and Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the old-school metro station platforms with the curvy in-a-tunnel feel. Beating the morning rush hour crowd as we took the metro to Orly Airport. Waiting for the gate to open. Guess where we are off to ? Bye bye Paris, for now. Leaving the fluffy grey clouds and rainy weather behind. Hello sunshine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour France #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I did after I touched down in Paris was to go to the doctor. Details skipped over because it&#8217;s a long story and definitely TMI. Found in the secret garden. I saw this at a number of places around Paris. I see Coca-Cola and I think of Virgin Mary, everytime. The neighborhood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=595</link>
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		<title>Recent Muji purchases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve bought snacks, stationery and paper goods from Muji but never clothing, mostly because I think they are rather over-priced at times and too organic for my taste while the design, despite keeping to a consistent wardrobe classic theme, doesn&#8217;t jump at me. Imagine my delight when I chanced upon this reasonably-priced cotton Breton sweater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty Poinsettia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend has just given me my first Christmas gift this year in the hope that the plant &#8220;will keep me company in the apartment&#8221; since I&#8217;m working from home given my recent back troubles. I only just found out that the plant is also called Noche Buena and is actually indigenious to Mexico. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Itching to buy a poster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I am loaded, I would of course splurge on all four but alas I am not, so it&#8217;s decision making time. Too tough. Option 1: $40, 18&#215;24 in. Option 2: $15, 13&#215;23 in. Option 3 (hi. i am in love with you. ok.): $40, 26&#215;40 in. Option 4 (hi. i am not interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street art in Cerbère</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technically speaking, photos were all taken in the underpass at the railway station in Cerbère, France on our way to the train platform. Even though every single painting was tagged, the underpass wall left untouched, the end result being some sort of integrative painting/graffiti series.]]></description>
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		<title>Street art in Montpellier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day I will have a letterbox and I will decorate it with an all-seeing eye too.]]></description>
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		<title>Backache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally went to the hospital yesterday. Despite feeling good as new on Sunday after the acupuncture sessions, my situation took a turn for the worse this week with a nagging persistent backache that refused to go away. When people say Shanghai East Hospital, I keep hearing &#8220;Shanghaiist Hospital&#8221;. It&#8217;s my first time at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=584</link>
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		<title>Speak Mandarin Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While reading up on the recent buzz on Singapore&#8217;s bilingualism policy, I chanced upon these Speak Mandarin Campaign posters from the 1980s. Not sure where I can lay my hands on them but would love to frame the first two up on my wall one day.]]></description>
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		<title>Typography China #6</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fast food is Le Bougon on soft, fresh slices of bread. I snacked on these as I prepared dinner. Fast food is instant Japanese curry with mirin-marinated chicken wings, potatoes, carrot and rice. Fast food is beef tenderloin served on a bed of sambal chilli fried beehoon with carrot slices and french beans. Perfect for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quiet night (not)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beats Muse and Brown Sugar any day, hands down.]]></description>
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		<title>Typography China #5</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=449</link>
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		<title>Knock knock !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These door knockers in Antibes do look a little creepy, don&#8217;t you think ?]]></description>
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		<title>Food frenzy #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little snack. I think this is supposed to be an appetizer but I usually have it on its own, sometimes after dinners when I still feel hungry. While this may seem like a weird combination of potatoes (sliced so thinly they taste like potato chips), frogs and lotus root, trust me it actually works. I haven&#8217;t had charcoal-fired hotpot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d sprained my back last Sunday and haven&#8217;t left the apartment since other than to go for my scheduled medical appointments.  Electro-acupuncture is something in a world of its own but I&#8217;m gritting my teeth and going along with it in the hope of preventing the sprain from becoming chronic. I had trouble standing, walking and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=501</link>
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		<title>Typography China #4</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=447</link>
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		<title>Meeting the grandparents in Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We took the train from Montpellier in southern France to Barcelona. En route, we passed by Perpignan and saw Dali&#8217;s famous &#8220;Perpignan Centre du Monde&#8221; slogan on the platform. Hello Barcelona ! Grandma making paella valenciana for lunch. Tasty, yay ! View from the balcony, sunny and perfect. A little jamón ibérico goodness before lunch. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=444</link>
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		<title>Street art in Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More colorful and vibrant than those in London.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Old-school in Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While most visitors to Barcelona talk endlessly about its modernisme architecture, what I enjoyed most was in fact its everyday buildings which still manage to look modern and contemporary today after so many years.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=432</link>
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		<title>Xinjiang edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite like having dinner in a Uighur friend&#8217;s home. All in all, it was very good fun, and I think everyone else would agree with me.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=412</link>
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		<title>Pet Conspiracy live in Shanghai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was my first time at MAO Livehouse. It was also Pet Conspiracy&#8216;s first show in Shanghai and my first time seeing Pet Conspiracy live ! All the firsts added up to become prime class awesomeness indeed. Best show I&#8217;ve been to in a long while.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=398</link>
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		<title>Typography China #3</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=402</link>
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		<title>Typography China #2</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=389</link>
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		<title>Food frenzy #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I drank watercress and honey lemon tea for the first time. Soupy bee hoon and squid balls only because the restaurant was out of wanton mee and fishballs. I didn&#8217;t get chilli slices in soy sauce to go along because the restaurant had the audacity to charge RMB 5 for the condiment. I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=334</link>
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		<title>A quick glimpse of London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spitalfields Market was the first place we stopped by after putting our bags down at our friends&#8217; apartment. It turned out a little too commercial for my liking. Plenty of products appeared to have been sourced from China too. Delicious at first bite, then I realized there was no end to chewing: way too much meat. Grey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=299</link>
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		<title>Public service announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I chuckled over some personals on the bus this morning. Here are some that stood out. It&#8217;s interesting how much you can see into other people&#8217;s character/ lives from their ads. Love is a star Love means giving and sharing. I&#8217;m sincere and here for my future partner. A pretty Chinese girl, late 20s who work in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=289</link>
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		<title>Street art in London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They give me a different vibe from those that I see in Paris.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Impromptu KTV night with sandwich shop guys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the most flattering of photos.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Everyday on the bus I wonder if</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. The bus driver would (finally) get into some crazy traffic accident because of his reckless driving. 2. Another unapologetic, impatient Chinese person would push me from behind and/or step on my foot.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Typography China #1</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Cup noodles and cilantro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eating too much of it these days, which is why I think this will be my last cup for a very long time to come.  Shown here topped with freshly-cut cilantro leaves, I heart.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Over lunch today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I popped by Rodney Evans&#8217; exhibition and also chanced upon this weirdish Lei Feng shrine.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Not your typical October holidays getaway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know we just came back from a vacation in late September but with China&#8217;s National Day and Mid-Autumn&#8217;s Day holidays upon us, we couldn&#8217;t sit around in Shanghai doing nothing for eight days. J didn&#8217;t want to spend all of it traveling and I didn&#8217;t have time or money to do anything too off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=199</link>
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		<title>Typography UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All taken around London. Click here to view the entire set.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Typography Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View the entire set here, though there is not much to begin with as I&#8217;d neglected to look out for interesting typography during my two days in Barcelona.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>People only hear what they want to hear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This holds true especially among older Chinese persons I&#8217;ve come into contact with over the years. A conversation with a cleaner at my office building earlier this evening was a prime example. Guy: So you usually converse in English at work ? Me: I suppose we use both English and Chinese. Guy: Yeah, usually English [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=182</link>
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		<title>1972</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos taken by Wellesley political science professor William A. Joseph during his 1972 visit to China as part of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) delegation. It should be interesting to compare them with Michelangelo Antonioni&#8217;s Chung Kuo &#8211; Cina which was also produced in 1972. I am currently one-third through the documentary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spicy ganguo goodness and bottomless Tsingtao&#8217;s on Friday to start off the weekend with a big bang, followed by more beer at the new Dingxi Lu Kaiba. Over dinner on Saturday evening, the French and the Germans insisted that the turducken must have been a Chinese invention and it turned out that they were wrong. Drinks with our newly-engaged girlfriend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Typography France #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of the series, taken in Paris and Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. Click here to view the entire set.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=157</link>
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		<title>Attack of the alien Asian dolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vampy, edgy photos by accidental fashion photographer Shxpir that are too gorgeous for words I say. More on Shxpir in this excellent NeochaEDGE interview here.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=147</link>
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		<title>The lowdown on Shanghai’s youth drinking culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had fun writing this yesterday. Link here.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Forgotten monuments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read an excellent article on abstract socialist monuments erected during the 1960s and 1970s in the former Yugoslavia featuring images by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Typography France #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From around Antibes, Montpellier and Paris.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Weekend snippets #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best way to avoid the crowds on Friday night, it seems, is to do drinks before dinner. We stopped by a near-empty Dada then grabbed a spicy Chongqing dinner after. On Saturday afternoon, I sent the two second-hand dresses I had thrifted in Paris to the tailor for alterations and they were ready (perfect, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Indoors</title>
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		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=109</link>
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		<title>House signages in the French Riviera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw these lovely house signages everywhere in Antibes. J thinks they are tacky but I particularly like the cast iron ones in cursive script (i.e. first photo below). Old-fashioned goodness !]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Typography France #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pretty much on the look out for interesting typography throughout the vacation in September apart from the three days where I had to rely on disposable cameras after my camera broke and in between getting a new one (didn&#8217;t have much of a choice). Film cameras do make you think twice before snapping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=80</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uploading and sorting photos from September&#8217;s vacation by the country. Now that I&#8217;m left with adding tags and descriptions, this hopefully shouldn&#8217;t be too overwhelming if I do it bit by bit. On a side note, applying this yardstick to the vacation would mean I&#8217;d sat in five airplanes, seven trains and slept in seven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Cheapy cam diptychs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I adore this series taken by a cheap camera I bought three years ago at a tourist attraction in Xi&#8217;an because my spiffy digital camera broke and I was desperate. Not too sure if more photos will follow as the camera does not seem to work as well as it used to though, am naturally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Press play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back online after a three-month hiatus, on my own domain for the very first time. Hopefully, I won&#8217;t be at the mercy of the GFW anymore. Wish me luck.]]></description>
		<link>http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?p=20</link>
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