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From Ha Noi, you leave at 8am and arrive in Beijing at 4pm. In time to check in at the Bamboo Gardens, take a bath and have a pedicure. Have your Gabardine suit pressed, while you head over to Mr. Cho’s Café Sambal across the street for some Satay Chicken or Ikan Belis. Then you [...]

Just when the humidity in Ha Noi makes you hate yourself for being alive, the de Young Museum, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, gives you more reasons to fly across the ocean: there’s a current show with works by Shi Guorui, out of Beijing. He “uses early photographic technologies to create large-scale pinhole photographs and [...]

I was beginning to miss Hong Kong just before I left, especially as I was reading this peculiar passage from Austrian writer and filmmaker Roland Hangenberg from a book called “Words and Visuals”, published by Sin Sin Fine Art Gallery in Hong Kong: “In German, we have a word that does not exist in English: [...]

President Nguyen Minh Triet of Viet Nam at Asia Society in New York last week:  
“When you come to Viet Nam, you will see Vietnamese people who are very hospitable, friendly, and especially the Vietnamese women… these are very charming when they wear the long dress, ao dai, and they are very gentle and very hospitable.”   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se5toEsmmuc&feature=dir   

Can [...]

Culinary choices in Hong Kong.  Menus thick as phone books.  My suggestions – go ahead, click on it, totally safe:
combo_5.exe
 

Tries to save money by sending me here:

I’d like an explanation for this:

Confession: I like throwing up a blog post, a way to stay in touch with you, and a distraction for myself from other must-do tasks. But I’m already mourning the fact that one day, there will no longer be journals, notebooks (which, of course, is now another word for a “laptop computer”), or sketch books. Nothing that [...]

Some guy said to a colleague once, My mission in life is to save the world, one woman at a time.
  
 Oh, nothing.  Just thought I’d repeat it to you. 

So Seoul is number 3 on the list. Ahead of Tokyo, at number 4!?
How can that be?! I’m still paying for the cup of coffee I had there two years ago.

 
Hong Kong claims the 5th spot. Osaka is number 8, Singapore 14, Beijing’s way down at 20.
Shanghai’s even lower, at 26. Taipei is ranked 48. 
Paris is [...]