Although this is a short book, it's one to savor.I wasn't born and raised in Hong Kong, but felt I could relate to a great part of Xu Xi's story in Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A Hero (Penguin, 2017). I've lived there a couple times and that always seems so complicated when I … [Read more...]
Soho then and now
When I lived in Hong Kong, the Soho neighborhood was just getting off the ground. I remember going to a Lebanese restaurant there in the fall of 1996 with a group of friends. Around that time about half a dozen new restaurants had popped up and my friends were starting to hang … [Read more...]
Bottonhole Bookbinding
Today my niece and I had the best time attending a bookbinding class at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago. Some months ago I blogged about a bookbinding notebook someone had given to Bari as a gift. She posted this notebook on Instagram and I immediately recognized it as my late … [Read more...]
Signs of the times: Hong Kong in the 90s
While the world is falling apart, I think back to an August afternoon many years ago when I flew off to Hong Kong during another global crisis: Gulf War I. I had never been to Hong Kong before, but was about to spend my junior year of college there and my flight was delayed eight … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Thirty years ago this summer, my dad took me to Seoul for a week. I was 16, going on 17, and had never been to Asia before. We flew business class and stayed at the Westin Chosun thanks to my mom's job at United's corporate headquarters. United at that time owned Westin.Just … [Read more...]
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