I heard from my mom yesterday, both on e-mail and Facebook. She's been e-mailing here and there since she set off for the old Silk Road a couple weeks ago, but it was the first time she'd Facebooked from Central Asia.This is what she wrote from Bukhara, Uzbekistan:Spent … [Read more...]
You say Macau, I say Macao
Sometimes I wish I could go back and retrace my steps. This is certainly true when it comes to Macau. I traveled to the then-Portuguese colony twice in the 1990s, just for the day. But in many ways I feel I never left the hydrofoil.This postcard from 1990 shows the Macau I … [Read more...]
Remembering Cambodia today
Whenever April 17th rolls around, I can't help but feel sad. Americans remember December 7th for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and September 11th for the terrorist attacks. Fortunately, our way of life hasn't changed terribly, but that wasn't the case in Cambodia 36 years … [Read more...]
Book of the week–A Tiger in the Kitchen
You know the old saying: it's better to have loved than have never loved at all.That's what I'm feeling now for dishes like Hainan chicken rice and bundles of sticky rice stuffed with meat and vegetables.But it's awfully difficult to crave these dishes and not have ready … [Read more...]
Fashions of the times, Taiwan in the mid-1960s
I guess it was fashionable in 1966 for Taiwan's leadership to dress in full military regalia. For someone who proclaimed himself a Generalissimo, it's only fitting, no? When my mom and her parents visited Taiwan a year before this photo was snapped of Chiang Kai-shek addressing a … [Read more...]
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