My mom and I have been constantly surprised and inspired by our market strolls daily. The array of leafy greens, fruits, and pre-cooked deli-like foods are exciting and we’d love to be able to try and eat them all. The other day while eating at my godmother’s house, I thought, I could really get used [...]
TAGS: Taiwan
Too tired to blog, here are some pictures with captions. I will catch up later – it’s actually quite hard to find time to type away without feeling like a social recluse or an obvious avoider of my parents. I’d never noticed how many different types of flowers there are on a flower truck Love [...]
TAGS: Taiwan
Due to increasing popularity for the Vancouver > Taipei > New Delhi route from China Airlines, they now hire South-East Asian flight attendants and try to incorporate Bollywood music and movies in flight. In the “introduction” flight announcement on my flight out of Vancouver, the main flight attendant announced, in English, that with the crew [...]
TAGS: family • rants • Taiwan • vacation
i can’t tell you when exactly i fell in love with new york city, but at some point in my childhood, i realized that i was already worshipping everything about “the city”. to this day, in my eyes, new york city can do no wrong. i know the floors and the tracks in the subway [...]
TAGS: new york city • shopping
We began the evening at the Plaza. The Champagne Bar was nice, small, and pretentious. Of course. We each had the Imperial Plaza cocktail and the gross bar nibs (solid butter on the side still) and moved on. Stopped at Henri Bendel and then went to 21 for another drink. We first got seated next [...]
TAGS: new york city