Beijing, China — Last night, while on the subway, I thought I heard something really beautiful on the radio. Subways don’t play the radio in Beijing, not to my knowledge. The music stopped. Then it started again and walked my way.
As spring unfolds into summer, spirits bloom.
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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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There’s no appetite to find where none has been lost.
After snacking on dānzǎi noodles (擔仔麵) at Du Hsiao Yueh restaurant, and other dishes rendering me full, a short walk to the Tainan Confucius Temple only a block or two away isn’t enough to work off lunch. The walk through the temple grounds didn’t help [...]
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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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Jordan made a rush for the border as we expats have to do every now and then in order to renew our visas. Often the routine finds us in any country that will stamp our passports out and back in for the price of a mini holiday. Jordan chose Seoul, Korea. He [...]
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After little more than a week of breathing cleaner air, walking under blue skies, and eating curried meals, it’s time to say goodbye. My appetite parts with a last kopi halia (coffee with ginger and condensed milk) and one last call for Hainan roast chicken rice at Maxwell’s Hawker centre.
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 — Last night I went to Marina Bay Sands for cocktails at Ku Dé Ta and snapped some photos with my iPhone 4 and stitched them.
And then today, some photos from Sentosa…
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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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