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If It’s Not Legal, It Must Be Illigal: A Very Brief Intro to North Jakarta’s...
Guilty-conscience: Feeling deep regret for something that either you have done to others or for something that has happened to others Guilty-conscious: Going to a place like Illigals Hotel & Club...
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Take Your Imagination Out for a Spin in Jakarta
You’re too funny, Jakarta bus. That’s probably why, for a long time, I have adopted Frankie Smith’s method of commuting. I have nothing against public transit – in fact, testing out local methods of...
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Be Better, Buy Butter
I couldn’t figure out why pillows would be in the refrigerated section of a supermarket in Manado, Indonesia. What are they trying to sell me, a local placebo for lower back pain? As you probably...
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Asian T-Shirts: New York, a Small New Jersey Suburb
An auspicious walk through a clothing store in Medan, Indonesia briefly left me nostalgic for the New York City subway. Nostalgic not to take a ride on it, oh no, but to compare the system map with...
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Kajang, Malaysia’s Satay City
Whether or not you want to spell it satay, sate, şiş kebap, or шашлы́к, at the end of the day it’s a few pieces of something, often meat, with a skewer poking through the center. Naturally though, when...
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Review: Sky Cafe (Indonesian), Elmhurst, Queens, New York
It’s difficult to say where it all began. Life, that is. Or my introduction to Sky Cafe, an Indonesian restaurant in New York. Every now and then I go to Philadelphia to visit a college buddy. He...
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A Tale of Two Consular Offices, with a Bonus
One of my favorite streets in Jakarta seems to have other fans in Manhattan too:Ironically, it was at the Consulate of Indonesia where I was able to test out the latest in household minivanization. On...
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The Salak (Snake Fruit) of Indonesia
My first encounter with the salak, or snake fruit, a native to Java and Sumatra, Indonesia came while visiting Pura Besakih (pura= temple) in Bali in 2005. As much as I’d like to add a photo from...
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Buffet
Nearly every Saturday during my sophomore year of college, my roommate and I would subject ourselves to a take-no-prisoners Indian buffet. Was it good? It had its moments, not the least of which was...
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Idiosyncratic Indonesia
Oh, looks like we’ve been down this alliterative avenue before. However, this time, we’ll paint Indonesia in a more playful light. I’ve gathered three photos that have amused me since coming across...
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