What are people reading? Well, a lot about food. Some of the most popular hits are on my “Best Cheung Fun in Chinatown” post, where someone linked my review to a board on Chowhound.com. Another biggie is the “Story Behind the Story” regarding FRIED DOUGH. But of course. It was a commentary + outtakes kind of post, because so much color didn’t get into my AP story about Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons entering the New York City market.

Because I’m particularly interested in immigration and migration of the Chinese, a German filmmaker recently wrote me asking if I could meet him for coffee to talk. I don’t know how much I can help him, but I told him I’d be happy to talk about my research going on in Zhejiang province at the moment, as well as my Masters thesis work I did in Brooklyn with Fujianese immigrants.

And then there was that time when I blogged about the plight of some domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Phillipines as they painstakingly leave their families behind to find work in places like Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore. Shortly after publishing that post, I received an e-mail from a woman in New York asking if I knew of any Filipino nannies available for hire in Manhattan with a valid driver’s license.

Yes. I get some strange requests sometimes.

At the end of the summer, an editor at Verge Magazine contacted me, wanting to write a little review of my blog for their September issue. Verge is a Canadian magazine (distributed across North America) aimed at young people interested in working, studying or traveling abroad.

Needless to say, I’m glad to see that people are reading! Keep on visiting, leaving comments and writing in.

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An interesting report from TIME.com: