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...conflict that comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into the unknown combined with the shame that comes from seeking the comfort of your own kind when you are supposed to be out making friends with the locals. Chris Stewart steps out of the expat ghetto?to his regret?in a passage from A Parrot in the Pepper Tree. In his tale of what happens when an outsider gets between a local man and his woman in Spanish Andalusia, Stewart asks, "What should you wear in bed when you are waiting for someone to come and kill...
...city. The Californian couple started asking around to see if others were feeling the same home-style longings, and discovered an eager market for Mexican (and responded with Taco Loco in June last year). But they also found an even bigger craving lurking in Hong Kong expat stomachs: deli food. "We found this craziness, this fervor for deli," says Levin...
...those anywhere else in Hong Kong outside of Seinfeld reruns). There's cheesesteaks for transplanted Philadelphians, and subs stuffed with roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "People would like to assume Americans go into McDonald's and go, 'Ah, home!' But it's not like that," Levin says. "As an expat you miss stuff...
...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...
...from the Middle East?has yet to see any substantial changes) may ironically provide it some measure of protection against terrorism. The diplomat comments: "These people are not stupid. They've got a good thing going in Malaysia. They don't want to mess that up by bombing some expat hangout." By Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur...