My friends were asking me what I was going to do when I got to Taiwan…knowing my family, I knew we were going to drop off our bags and head straight to the night markets. The last time I was in Taiwan, in 2006, we literally dropped off our bags at my aunt’s house and […]
We flew from JFK to Narita and had three meals on our 14 hour flight. Everytime I come to Taiwan (or anywhere in Asia) I swear it’s going to be my last time because I seriously cannot stand flying for that long. Here are the three meals I had on my flight. The first meal […]
Once a month, my mom gets together with some of her friends to play bridge and eat dinner together. My mom plays bridge with the husbands while the aunties chat and prepare dinner. Since I was in town, I helped prepare dinner and chatted with the aunties (rather, I listened to them since I can’t […]
I couldn’t make it to the night market event tonight, but my brother was able to attend…and he took this picture of David Chang and Jeffrey Steingarten: Did you go to the night market event? Was it fun? David said he drank and ate a lot of good food and that even though it was […]
A few weeks ago, one of my fans invited me out for dinner in Chinatown. I’ve never met up with a reader for dinner so I jumped at the opportunity! We met up at Shanghai Cafe in Chinatown for their soup dumplings: Their soup dumplings are hand made in the front of the restaurant and […]
