Tainan, Taiwan — Tainan has great eats! Peikwen’s friend from university has a father who lives in Tainan and much to our luck… he’s a foodie. Uncle Yang is from Tainan. He knows the good from the mediocre and how many generations a shop has been around with their zǔchuán [...]
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Taipei is a bit rainy, so a small trip out to Tainan where the weather is sunny, though cool, was in order. Tainan is a city known as “the City of Snacks” (小吃城). In addition to the wide variety of food available at night markets, the city also has an abundance [...]
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Hong Kong – Hong Kong airport is not a bad place to be stranded. Fortunately, I’m not stranded and just here for a seven-hour lay over. In the meantime, I’ll nosh on my favorite Cantonese foods, window shop, eat a little more, and muse over free Internet (sans the ‘Great Firewall’).
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A grey autumn day didn’t keep me indoors this past Saturday.
Wine seminar at Temple Restaurant
A wine seminar held at Temple Restaurant Beijing woke up my senses with Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs from Burgundy, taught by Marco Caschera, directeur of export for Vincent Girardin. The event was coordinated [...]
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Hong Kong — A teppanyaki dinner is always entertaining, but it takes great quality and skill to do more than impress visually. The dinner at Matsubishi provoked utters of delight, with hardly words to speak. So in that fashion, I am sharing the visuals of my dinner too long to recount in [...]
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Hong Kong — I came to Hong Kong for a visa renewal and now the trip has been extended as I work on a new project. Our client, Alex, is a gourmand. He loves to eat and he knows his food and wine. Alex invited us to dinner at Gold where his [...]
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My favorite Chinese cuisine is Sichuan, but when it comes to comfort food and nostalgia, I love Cantonese Hong Kong style. First meal off the airport express train brings me to the IFC mall, level P3 at Tasty Congee and Wantun Noodle Shop (正斗粥麵專家). This is usually my last meal before I [...]
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Yesterday marked the 29th birthday of a dear friend. She is surrounded by friends and family whom we might label foodies. Her brother coordinated a birthday dinner at a place I’ve been meaning to try, Private Kitchen, Afro Caribbean cuisine owned by chef Rose Zamoa. I’ve heard of private kitchens in Hong [...]
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In the last year, quite a few businesses have popped up in Beijing to cater for foreigners’ tastes in cakes, pastries and most of all, cupcakes. One finds the likes of Lollipop Bakery and Colibri Cupcakes a settlement for what is lacking in the city of Beijing [...]
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Singapore — I’ve been to Singapore once before. Last year I visited a friend who was working here for a 6 month project and she toured me to her favorite food stalls. One spot I remembered and wanted to return to was the Thunder Tea Rice stall at Lau Pa Sat (stall 12). [...]
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Singapore — I wake up happy. The air, noticeably humid, might make the day go south for some, but I like humidity. I tend to think it does good things for my skin. I start with an hour of Nike Training in the living room. Sliding doors open to [...]
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Macaroons were a luxury for me when I was a student in Paris, and so when I returned to work there some five years ago, I was finally able to sample a taste of the great French baked sweet. Macaroons, or macarons, as the French call them, are [...]
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