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...]
Postcard from Macau, 1990
I sent this postcard to my paternal grandma one month after I moved to Hong Kong for my junior year abroad.This was my first of two trips to Macau, both just for the day and both on my own (the second trip was in 1994, after I had moved back to Hong Kong).Macau is now the … [Read more...]
Postcard from Nanjing, 1988
Years ago my paternal grandmother told me I should be a writer. Maybe it was her way of encouraging me to continue writing postcards from my travels and letters from college and grad school.My only grandparent born outside the US, Grandma Blumberg came to the US from … [Read more...]
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