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Category Archives: Yakety Yak

An unexpected pleasure

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I haven’t travelled much this year. While in Bhutan, I discovered that Mr Yak and I were going to have a baby – exciting news for us, but it did […]

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Philosophy, Yakety Yak
Mapo Tofu

Introducing my new(ish) food blog

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Some time last year, I decided that writing about travel and cooking on a single site – as I was doing here at Little Yak – was a bit of […]

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Little Yak is 3 + Giveaway!

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Today is a landmark for Little Yak – three years, 100 posts and the end of my longest blogging break to date – three things to celebrate! To mark the […]

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Yakety Yak

Gong xi baa cai!

February 18, 2015by Joanna James Leave a comment

In Chinese, the year that starts at midnight tonight the Year of the Yang (羊 yáng). Yang is an umbrella term that encompasses both goats and sheep – anything that […]

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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2014by Joanna James 1 Comment

I made it to North Island! Apologies to have left you hanging after my first day on the Alps 2 Ocean, but I’ve had a terribly busy few weeks since […]

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Yakety Yak

To Burma

February 10, 2014by Joanna James 1 Comment

In a few hours time I will be on a flight over the Andaman Sea from Singapore to Yangon. Doesn’t that sound romantic? If this were the 1930s —when Yangon […]

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Burma, Yakety Yak

One year on…

January 24, 2014by Joanna James 1 Comment

When I started the Little Yak blog in August 2012, I really didn’t know what I wanted to say – it took me until January 2013 to work up to […]

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Yakety Yak

Happy New Year!

January 3, 2014by Joanna James Leave a comment

Happy New Year, dear readers! I hope that 2014 is off to a good start for you all. Here in Hong Kong, we’re in limbo between the Western New Year […]

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The Little Yak 2014 Calendar

December 15, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

A drumroll, please: Just in time for Christmas and the end of the year, the Little Yak elves (i.e. my lovely printers) are putting the finishing touches to our 2014 […]

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Yakety Yak

Paperwork Pains

December 3, 2013by Joanna James 2 Comments

The post-trip dust of mystery receipts and cryptic notes-to-self (‘It [what?!] starts at 4,650m’  and ‘Watch out for… [illegible scrawl]‘) has finally settled. When I’m leading a journey, the adventure is […]

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China, People, Yakety Yak

Rainclouds and Snowstorms

November 4, 2013by Joanna James 2 Comments

First for the rainclouds… It’s been a wet afternoon here in Hong Kong. Earlier, as I squeezed my way through the forest of head-height umbrellas that lined a crowded section […]

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China, Yakety Yak

Three handsome boys, please.

October 16, 2013by Joanna James 3 Comments

“You know, in Cantonese slang, you can ask for a bowl of rice by asking for a leng jai,” Mr Yak told me years ago, when I was still young and […]

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People, Yakety Yak

A Short Break

July 20, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

Dear Readers, Exciting (non-China-related) news! Mr Little Yak and I are getting married later on today, and then heading off on a little honeymoon – to Switzerland, not China – […]

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Yakety Yak

Why ‘Little Yak’?

January 23, 2013by Joanna James 1 Comment

Over the last few years I’ve been fortunate enough to make several trips to Tibet and ethnically Tibetan regions of Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu. Besides the clichés of deep […]

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