Eddie Huang on Food and Trains

"One of my favorite things is to take a train to a neighborhood I don't know and just collect menus representing a certain style of cuisine, ... I keep going back trying the same food item at different places until I develop a foundation and frame of reference." (Post is also here.)


I would not know that usually we buy cassia and not true cinnamon if it were not for trains. I would not know that there is a neighborhood in Sintaein, South Korea with its own crest if it were not for trains. I would not know many of the people that I know if it were not for trains and buses.


Update: More discoveries by Adonia: Riding the Bus in Seattle