The May issue of Travel + Leisure magazine features an article about Trader Vic's, the old school tiki restaurant. The article even credits Vic Bergeron, the founder of the restaurant, with giving Americans the travel bug starting in the 1930s, when his first Trader Vic's … [Read more...]
Postcard from Shanghai, 1995
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...]
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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