I spoke to someone yesterday who told me that my posts about how I brought my dog from Singapore to Helsinki to San Francisco helped them make a similar move for their cats from KL to Amsterdam. The autistic joy of being highly specific and sharing step by step information about my daily life

A what now

Surprised that no one’s done a time travel cooking show where going back in time with your spice rack items makes you the richest person in the world

Some days I feel fully integrated as a Californian. Other days I am almost run over by cars slamming it to try to get the most aggressively mid burgers run by evangelicals #Food #California #LosAngeles

Back home and resisting the urge to look for Mila everywhere. Still can’t believe she’s gone. She was a big part of our lives the whole time we’ve been in this country. Our little girl from Tracy. #Cats

Amazing video about Sugen Gopal, Malaysian Indian chef and restaurant owner whose Roti King in London has been a huge success. He has a great cookbook too. You may be looking at this food and wondering ‘why is it so different from the vegetarian South Indian foods I usually get’ and that’s because Malaysian Tamils tended to have come from lower caste communities, who have different foods. His success is a huge beacon of hope for many, especially those who haven’t seen this type of Tamil food represented. It’s my favorite kind of South Indian food, anyway. Buy his book. #Food #UK #Cooking #RotiKing #Malaysia #TootSea #London

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A parrot living in SoCal with its British owner went missing, and showed up 4 years later speaking Spanish instead https://www.iflscience.com/a-parrot-named-nigel-with-a-british-accent-went-missing-it-showed-up-four-years-later-talking-spanish-82270

Had a hilarious moment with my LA rideshare driver. We drove past Jollibee. I was commenting on how great Jollibee was, and sharing a factoid with my wife ‘in Malaysia, Church’s chicken is Texas chicken, coz church, haha’ and the driver was like OMG YOU SOLVED A MYSTERY FOR ME Turns out he’s from Dubai and he was wondering why church’s chicken and Texas chicken had the same menu Then we reminisced about Dubai and spoke about our respective immigrant lives in California All because of fried chicken facts #Food #Malaysia #Dubai

Maybe I don’t want to move to New York anymore (coz this is a SoCal winter) #California #SantaBarbara #Marine #ChannelIslands