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For as long as I can remember, the Asian-American identity had existed in various forms before I’d even known that being an ABC (American-born Chinese) was a thing. It was fed to me in drops and trickles: first through the works of Amy Tan, where I related strongly to her child protagonist Ying-ying St. Clair in the 1992 book The Moon Lady, the story of a headstrong and fairly obnoxious girl who …
ABC in Hong Kong: A Chinese American Story of Language, Loss, and HomeRead More
I plan an entire visit to a place around its food more often than I care to admit. This was especially true before I became Instagram trash (hey, click that Follow if you haven’t!), when the only photos I snapped were on my Samsung 5, and consisted nearly entirely of things like handheld jianbing or egg waffles stuffed with ice cream. Since my nearly-complete transformation into Instagram …
In 2018, I flew out of Hong Kong for international trips 9 times. A year later, in 2019, both my style of travel (I affectionately call it “super light touch”) and everything else in my life caught up with me. I traveled less, but also wrote more. I launched my travel blog in October. I created a presence on two new social media platforms. I turned 26. 2019 Travels: Macau, France, New …
Lily Wunders 2019: My Year in Review in Travel and BloggingRead More
Have Americans destroyed Italian cuisine? Do the Italians hate us for it? Do I even know what Italian food is? Would bringing an Italian to Little Italy in Boston be carnage? My first experience with Italian food came in the form of boxed Barilla spaghetti. My dad meticulously listed grocery items on yellow Post-it notes and carefully attached them to our fridge door. One of them is still …
Do Italians like American Italian Food? We Eat in Little Italy in Boston to Find OutRead More
The worst thing you can do if you're from Massachusetts is say you're from Boston if you're not. If you're friends with someone who is actually from Boston, they'll draw up a map for you. It's instinctual. It's like scratching when you have an itch. You just do it. You're not from Boston if you're from Springfield, OK? But I digress. In the travel world, where living like a local …
I’m From Boston. Here Are My Top Things to Do in Boston.Read More
Ostensibly, Thanksgiving is about the celebration of the coming together of the Pilgrims (who were a group of people who came over from England to, ostensibly, escape religious persecution). By ostensibly, I mean that this fact-of-sorts had been sort of softly hammered into my head since I was old enough to place a chubby little hand on a piece of brown construction paper and shakily trace a …
