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PIA Guide to Asian Eats in NYC |
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 Asia means many things to many people: grand temples, ancient history,
indecipherable languages, adventurous travel, and more. While all those
things are true, for me it means one thing above all else- food. Asia
is an eater's paradise complete with the tastiest delicacies (e.g.
duck's tongue soup) to go along with the most basic of sustenance (e.g.
a bowl of noodle soup). While it's hard to compare America's renditions
of these treats to those made in their native countries, New York City
has some of the finest Asian cuisine this coast has to offer and PiA
has searched long and hard for the best of the best in a place famous
for finicky eaters. It is thus with great pride that we present the PiA
Guide to Asian Eating in New York City. We hope that food lover's
around the country will read our guide and test out our findings. We
also hope that those who feel passionate about their meals will
continue visiting this site in order to share their thoughts and
digestions on Asian eateries around town. Feel free to chime in
anytime--there's always someone willing to consider your musings while
munching on some dumplings.
-Ari Wolfe, PiA Program Director
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Welcome To Princeton in Asia |
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 Mission Statement: “ To promote good will and understanding and to facilitate in every way the free interchange of the best ideals in the civilizations of both East and West.” Princeton-in-Asia (PiA) provides transformative, service-oriented experiences for talented graduates and serves the needs of Asia as determined by our Asian partners. Over the last century, the organization has achieved this goal by providing talented young people with various opportunities to live and work in Asia. The first PiA "fellowships" consisted of a handful of Princeton University graduates who went to China in the late 1890s to do relief work and teach English; the program has since expanded considerably in size and scope throughout Asia. In 2007, PiA placed 125 fellows in seventeen countries, including Cambodia, China, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Currently the program offers 85 teaching fellowships with 40 additional fellowships in the fields of journalism, international development, and business. PiA's Home Office is located on the Princeton University campus. Princeton-in-Asia is a private, independent, non-profit organization 501(c)(3) affiliated with Princeton University. |
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Nate Edgerton: PiA Fellow of the Fortnight |
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 Nathan has spent the past seven months teaching English at Can Tho University in satisfyingly sunny yet unfortunately humid southern Vietnam. A fellow of hardy northern European and, more lately New England stock, his genes are likely perplexed, reasoning that the warmth and moisture must be some kind of unsheddable bearskin coat. Yet despite the confusion his body has undergone in adapting to this new place, his mind has found it quite ideal. In addition to his job, he's had ample time to explore the Mekong Delta, spend time with students, and volunteer to teach at a local pagoda (a project started by a former PIA fellow). In addition to this, he has had time to spend many mornings and afternoons relaxing in a lawnchair at a roadside café, studying and watching motorbikes and bicycles pass, sometimes with three children perched atop like crows on a power-line. Now, he is spending his final month saying goodbye to Vietnam before moving to a new post in Singapore this June. His claim to "Fellow of the Week" fame is an essay he wrote that was fortunately selected as the winner in a travel writing contest. You can read all about it here.
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Judy Chen: PiA Alum of the Fortnight |
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 Judy Chen traveled from
Swarthmore College to the Zhejiang University of Technology in China
through PiA to teach English. Despite the University's assurances that
voluntary quarantine in her apartment and spray bottles filled with
vinegar would effectively prevent SARS, Judy left China for a brief
sojourn in the US before heading to Kunming to work with PiA partner Population Services
International (PSI). While there, she coordinated peer education and
outreach programs to provide HIV/AIDS prevention information to
injecting drug users. Vientiane, Laos was her next stop after
completing her master's in public health, where she worked on national
behavioral surveillance surveys with sex workers and men who have sex
with men. Before heading back to the US, Judy had the privilege of
working with an NGO in Kachin State, Myanmar on malaria control.
Currently Judy is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts as Monitoring and
Evaluation Analyst on an initiative to prevent mother to child
transmission of HIV/AIDS. She is responsible for a portfolio of
countries in Asia and Africa and travels for work.
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