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By Ernest Kim
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Beautiful street art in Rio

September 22, 2014 in Life

I had an opportunity to visit Rio de Janeiro earlier this month and was captivated by the beauty and expressiveness of the street art. Here’s just a small sampling of the work I encountered...

Along the Praça Nossa Senhora da Paz In the Rocinha neighborhood In the Rocinha neighborhood Along the Praça Nossa Senhora da Paz In Ipanema, a few blocks from the beach
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Our lounging ladies making the most of this glorious spring weather!😸☀️🌳 • #CatsOfInstagram #Catstagram #Spring #Portland
The sun was like a stone skipped across the clouds. • #UpInTheAir #Sunset or #Sunrise — I can’t remember #FluffyClouds #WindowSeat
A huge thank you to @128_baobao and @joy2_theworld for treating me to the best hot pot I’ve ever had at a spot called Bigger Panda!🙏🏼 (FYI: I couldn’t find the location in IG, so I’ve set it to the W Shanghai. The restaurant is actually on the second floor of the new Sinar Mas Mall, which is right next door to the W.) • They ordered up a half & half pot, with one half featuring a spicy broth chock full of mouth numbing Sichuan peppercorns & the other filled with a mild, but still very flavorful tomato-based broth. • On top of the amazing food, the restaurant also offered a fantastic atmosphere. It was hip, but still welcoming, and was packed with about an even mix of families with kids and young couples enjoying a night out. • If you’re in Shanghai & find yourself craving hot pot, I’d highly recommend Bigger Panda. Their blending of authentic flavors with a contemporary vibe is easy to love.👍🏼 • #BiggerPanda #BiggerPandaHotPot #HotPot #火锅 #HalfAndHalfHotPot #SichuanPeppercorn #SzechuanPeppercorn #FoodFinds #Shanghai
During a quick visit to a Starbucks here in Shanghai, I noticed this intriguing food item advertised as “Icy Dumplings.” • According to one of my local colleagues, it’s a modern take on a popular Chinese treat called zongzi. The classic version is made with sticky rice that’s filled—fillings can be sweet or savory—then wrapped in a banana leaf and shaped into a tetrahedron (aka a four-sided pyramid). Apparently, historically, these treats were associated with a holiday called the Dragon Boat Festival that runs from May to June, but nowadays zongzi is popular year-round. • Starbucks’ version features an ice cream center that’s surrounded, not by ice, as I had assumed, but by a transparent shell of gelatinous wheat gluten. It looks delicious and, given that it’s already quite hot & humid in Shanghai, seems like a killer idea for a cooling snack item that can be enjoyed on the go.☀️+🍙+🍦=🙌🏼 • My understanding is that Starbucks has offered this item in China since 2009! I’m really surprised that they haven’t brought something similar to the US—I could see it being enormously popular through the summer months. To the @Starbucks team: Any chance of getting this in the States? • #Zongzi #粽子 #ModernZongzi #StarbucksZongzi #IcyDumpling #Starbucks #ThinkLocal #ProductConcept #Shanghai
As I understand it, the grilled lamb in the foreground is a Northern dish called Yang Rou Chuan that’s very popular as a street food item in Beijing, but this was at a fantastic Sichuan restaurant near our hotel in Shanghai. • As delicious as the meat items are out here, what I’ve been most impressed by are the vegetable-based dishes. For example, at the upper left of this shot is a nearly finished plate of Stir-Fried Lettuce with Garlic, which I believe is a Cantonese dish. Doesn’t sound like much, but it was my favorite dish of the day—the sauce had a remarkable depth & they somehow managed to cook the lettuce without completely wilting it. The balance of savory, umami, and just a hint of sweetness from the cooked lettuce was masterful!🥬🤤👏🏼 • #YangRouChuan #羊肉串 #LambKebab #StirFriedLettuce #蒜香萵苣 #XinjiangFood #XinjiangCuisine #CantoneseFood #CantoneseCuisine #SichuanFood #SichuanCuisine #SzechuanFood #SzechuanCuisine #FamilyStyle #FoodFinds #Shanghai
We may have ordered too much.🙀 • Remarkably, we pretty much finished everything on the table. I then went back to my hotel room and slept like a log.😴 Over-eating may be an effective cure for jet lag—I’m going to have to continue to study this over the course of this trip.😜 • #CantoneseFood #CantoneseCuisine #SiuMei #烧味 #DimSum #Dumplings #FoodFinds #Shanghai
I’m going to make it a policy from now on to only stay at hotels that offer home style soy milk & Chinese doughnuts (aka youtiao) for breakfast.🤤 • I think the Rosewood Hotel’s soy milk had a deeper, richer flavor, but The Puli fries their youtiao to order, so I’ll call it a draw.🤜🏼🤛🏼 • The Puli does earn bonus points, though, for offering red dragon fruit (aka pitaya roja).🐲🍉The white variety is much more common, but, to my tastebuds, red dragon fruit has more flavor (though, just looking at it will stain anything white within a meter radius) & is full of antioxidants. • #BreakfastOfChampions #SoyMilk #WarmSoyMilk #AsianSoyMilk #Youtiao #油条 #ChineseDoughnut #DragonFruit #RedDragonFruit #PitayaRoja #ThePuli #FoodFinds #Shanghai

 

 

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