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The scent of home in Hong Kong
We'd been in Hong Kong for a week and always noticed a particularly strong aroma of something faintly spicy, with vanilla overtones, on a walkway near our apartment. We thought that whoever lived there must be an excellent cook. It smelled…
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Airing our dirty laundry in China
Before we left for a year one of our friends asked us what we would do about our laundry. Since our first month was in China we figured finding a laundry wouldn't be a problem. We were wrong.
By the time we arrived in Shanghai three weeks into…