Here are my favorite pescaterian-vegetarian food picks on this trip to Vietnam… Top left: Chã cá, or table charcoal-grilled hake fillets with tons of fresh dill, turmeric, galangal, ginger, fish sauce and shrimp paste, at Cha Ca Thanh Long in Hanoi Top right: bánh khúc, mung bean dumplings with cassava and rice flour skins, my …
After planning and preparing for this trip to Vietnam for months, I thought it might be useful to share what worked well for me with planning and arrival at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi: 1. Internal flights can be much cheaper when booked directly on the airline website. For example, I purchased my flight from …
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No visit to Taiwan is complete without a visit to a night market. Despite my exhaustion from jet lag and walking around Taipei in sweltering summer heat, last night I made it to the Raohe night market (饒河夜市) next to the Songshan MRT and local train station and was pumped enough by all the activity …
Owls are a good luck symbol in Taiwan. I had the amazing good fortune that my Auntie knows Teacher Zhang of the Saisiyat aboriginal tribe, and she happened to be at her shop the afternoon we stopped by Nanzhuang town in the mountains of Miaoli, my mother’s ancestral home. I saw her handmade owls at …
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Owls are a good luck symbol in Taiwan. I had the amazing good fortune that my Auntie knows Teacher Zhang of the Saisiyat aboriginal tribe, and she happened to be at her shop the afternoon we stopped by Nanzhuang town in the mountains of Miaoli, my mother’s ancestral home. I saw her handmade owls at …
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I’m off to Taiwan (to see family), Vietnam (to vacation with friends) and Hong Kong (for a quickie dim sum layover blitz). I met my goal to fit 2 weeks’ worth of stuff into my Osprey Farpoint 40 liter pack with the total pack weighing less than 15 pounds (not including food/water, I squeaked in …
The last 4 years have been the longest and probably most challenging adventure for me yet: becoming a parent and raising a toddler while working full time and building a career. Parenting has been an intense collection of some of my highest highs and lowest lows, and lots of hamster wheeling in between. My favorite …
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