This is the Shanghai I remember.Fifteen years and hundreds of glassy skyscrapers later, the city on this postcard exists no more.Notice the streets: few cars, some buses, and dozens of bicycles.As rustic as Shanghai was back then, it was still the most cosmopolitan … [Read more...]
Postcard from Taipei, 1991
I wrote this postcard to my dad's mother in 1991 when I went to Taipei for spring break.The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, to me, was the symbol of Taipei back then. I love the description of the building on the back of the postcard:From a corner within the park, the … [Read more...]
An Ode to Mister Softee
The great thing about living in a sub-tropical climate is that ice cream is popular year round.Mister Softee is a Hong Kong institution and while it only serves four items (see menu), I preferred the traditional "Soft Ice Cream Crispy Sugar Cone", which comes in one flavor: … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Song of the Azalea
When my friend Raymond told me about Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese Son by Kenneth Ore and Joann Yu (Penguin Canada, 2005), I went online and bought it without thinking twice.He wasn't joking when he said it was a powerful story. I found it to be one of the best … [Read more...]
Chinese paper cuts
Several posts ago I heralded Pierce Brosnan and Connaught Centre for sparking my interest in Hong Kong during my teenage years. In subsequent discussions on Facebook, I was reminded that a branch of the Welfare Handicrafts shop was housed in the basement of Connaught … [Read more...]
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