On our first day in Taiwan, Will and I stayed in the city of Xin Beitou, which is known for its hot springs. I had expected some sort of secluded resort town in the hills, but it looks much like a city built at the foot of rolling hills. Our hotel, Sweet Me looked [...]
Mr. Kazuo Ueda, bartender at Tender Bar in Ginza, inventor of the hard shake. What a classy guy.
Let’s say you’re in Hong Kong and you’re a vegetarian or traveling with one and you or he wants dim sum. No problem! There’s a fully vegetarian restaurant at Admiralty, on a hill near the tea pot museum. It’s mostly a “drink expensive tea and eat snacks” place but it may be worth a [...]
When I think of Hong Kong, I think of Cantonese food, and when I think of Cantonese food, I think of bite sized food in bamboo steamer baskets, aka dim sum. What’s a visit to Hong Kong without trying the dim sum there at least once?
I went to Victoria City which is part of a [...]
For being a Cantonese speaking city, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of vegetarian restaurants there were in Hong Kong. But then again, it’s also a huge, worldly city, so I should have expected it.
One restaurant we went to twice was Cute Fei. It was an accidental find as we were trying to make [...]
I won’t deny that one of the reasons I like traveling to Asia is for the food. Hong Kong is no exception. Despite it being a very international metropolis with its fair share of Starbucks’ and KFC’s, there’s still more traditional, tasty Chinese food to be found.
On my first night there, Will dragged me around [...]
If I were to describe Hong Kong tersely, I’d call it a more civilized China. It feels like a city halfway between old China and a western city. The first thing I noticed there was that people drove on the other side of the road. Because of that, and the fact that people drove in [...]
