The latest quarter of Cleaver is stuffed like bao with new glimpses at the many ways Chinese culture & cuisine are translated and permutated across this weird, hungry globe. Tea eggs, Hakka heritage, Mexican Chinese eats, a slice of Hawaiian-Chinese food history, Taiwanese breakfasts, the Shanghai Soup Dumpling Index.

Learn that "sweet & sour chicken skeleton" is a street food that exists -- then do your best to burn the image from your delicate mind. ~GS