“By that point, I was ready to convert. I wanted to be white so fucking bad. But then dinner happened.”
― Fresh Off the Boat
― Fresh Off the Boat
“If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.”
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“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
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