Being stuck in town because of COVID for 2 whole years already, I guess the only silver lining was the opportunity or excuse to explore more...

Just a few weeks ago we bemoaned the closure of TAP (The Ale Project in full), one of the pioneer gastro-pub specializing in local brews, wh...

While we were staying nearby for the weekend, I felt a visit to the Hong Kong Museum of Art is a must, partly because I have never been ba...

I cruised along the highway up to the township of Kam Tin near the border after receiving a late phone call from my friend A asking whethe...

The only “sightseeing” stuff we did in our long weekend in Shenzhen was a trip to Shekou on the outskirt of the city now easily accessible...

A few weeks ago I spent a few days in Taichung City, the second populous city in Taiwan (after Taipei, of course) on the western side of t...

I finally managed to catch a professional baseball game in Japan this time, as this is something I always wanted to do but never had a cha...

We were "forewarned" that the house we rented did not come with a bath tub but only a shower room. It's not a problem for u...

Looking at the picture of the Taoxichuan (陶溪川) complex, the latest development project in central Jingdezhen (景德鎮), one might have mistake...

We were hopelessly stranded in a small ceramics shop/café in the Sanbao Valley art village when the rain which started slightly after lunc...

At first I couldn't quite connect the dots between the recent opening of Snoopy Museum Tokyo and the timing of my weekend in town, b...

Having been to Tokyo for more than half a dozen times in the last couple of years, I am amazed there are still new things to do and new pl...

Last week we showed up at a rather unusual place - a commercial building in Kwun Tong in a makeshift dining hall - for a dinner event comm...

One of my favorite travel experiences in Ho Chi Minh City was to try the food prepared by Nguyen Thi Thanh - aka the Lunch Lady - at her s...

In Hong Kong, there are restaurant openings and then there are THE restaurant openings, and the recent launch of Nakamura Tokichi (中村藤吉) d...

I played tourist for one Saturday morning and signed up for the Culture Walk event down the memory lane in the old Yaumatei. This was part ...