My mom brought me this stash of green tea from Japan last week. Japanese green tea is my favorite.The tea on the left and in the center (in the white bag) is genmaichai, or roasted rice tea. If you look closely at the bag on the left, you can see brown pieces of roasted rice … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
South African Airways ad, 1981
I recently found this South African Airways ad in a magazine from 1981 at my grandma's house.South African Airways was the only airline back then to fly non-stop between New York and Johannesburg. (My grandparents traveled there a decade earlier and flew KLM via … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Last Resort
This week I read another memoir about Zimbabwe. It's my fourth and I can't get enough.In The Last Resort (Crown, 2009), travel writer Douglas Rogers chronicles his parents' downward spiral as life in Zimbabwe falls apart.Like Peter Godwin's memoir, When the Crocodile Eats … [Read more...]
Tabasco ad, 1958
In 1958, Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the beloved Madeline children's books, illustrated this ad for Tabasco sauce--in a Hong Kong setting.This colonial dinner, complete with paper lanterns, a harbor view, and Chinese servants, looks like something from The World of Suzy … [Read more...]
Godown, part deux
I couldn't resist.I found this 1972 ad for the Godown Bistro's sister restaurant--the Godown Restaurant, across the Harbor in Hong Kong's Central district.The ad is just as colonial as the Bistro's:It has the same intimate, friendly atmosphere and the waitresses are … [Read more...]