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Food in Hong Kong - Sunning Restaurant
The evening I arrived in Hong Kong, I joined fellow Xangans Gary and Rudy for dinner at Sunning Restaurant in Causeway Bay. Sunning is a long-time favorite of locals, dating to 1948, and specializes in...
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Vegetarian Food on Lantau Island
On Saturday morning after a hearty local breakfast, we headed to Lantau Island to visit the Po Lin Monastery and try the famed vegetarian food served there. Lantau is the largest of Hong Kong's many...
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Food in Hong Kong - The Pawn
Image courtesy flickriver.comLocated in a 100-year old former pawn shop alongside the tram tracks in the bustling Wan Chai district, The Pawn is one of a number of newer restaurants in Hong Kong that...
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The Pawn Building in the 1960s
After posting the write-up of dinner at The Pawn in Wan Chai, which is located in a nearly 100-year old building, Angel happened to find a picture of the building from the 1960s. Makes for a...
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Food in Hong Kong - Tim Ho Wan at IFC
Twice during my trip to Hong Kong, I enjoyed dim sum at Tim Ho Wan, the (world's least expensive) Michelin-starred restaurant founded by former Four Seasons Chef Mak Kwai Pui. The first time was at the...
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Happy Birthday to My Mother
Yesterday was my mother's birthday, so this morning (because of the time zone difference) Tawn and I called her. As my parents age, I realize that they will not be around forever. This, combined with...
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Flying the THAI Airbus A380 for the First Time
As good fortune and careful scheduling would have it, the return leg of my Hong Kong trip was aboard THAI Airways' new Airbus A380. The A380, affectionately known as the Whale Jet because of its...
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New Year's Day Tea Party
On New Year's Day, Tawn's university friends gathered for what I hope will be an annual tradition: New Year's Tea. Our host, Bim, prepared scones and a variety of snacks. I prepared the tea sandwiches....
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How Does My Garden Grow - Season Two
Just like the surprise return of a critically-acclaimed but unpopular television series, my attempts at urban gardening are back for another season. The story of a green-thumbed underdog trying to coax...
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Preparing Baked Alaska for the First Time
While in Hong Kong, Gary took us to a fantastic 1960s style restaurant called Sunning. The menu was full of classics including Baked Alaska. This being only the second time I have had the dessert, I...
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Kaffir Lime Cheesecake
As dessert for a barbecue with friends last weekend, I baked a kaffir lime cheesecake. Kaffir lime, a member of the citrus family whose fruit and leaves are an essential part of Thai, Indonesian,...
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Cannelés in Bangkok at Le Beaulieu
Widely considered Bangkok's finest French restaurant, Le Beaulieu serves dishes that would be at home in Paris. It also charges prices that are simply beyond my budget. But when I want un petit goût of...
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End of January Updates
Time to take a break from the trio of dessert entries and provide a few updates on life here in Bangkok. Lots of odds and ends going on that are worth mentioning.The sun sets on Bangkok and on my job...
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A Proposal to Reduce Xanga Spam
My blog receives an ever-increasing quantity of spam comments. The comments are usually incoherent, sometimes just text copied from my entry, and always include a link to whatever site the commenter is...
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Asiatique
Visits by Xangans have been frequent this winter. Last month, David (fongster8) was in town for a few days and Tawn and I had a chance to enjoy a few meals together with him. One evening, we took the...
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A Funny Sort of Safety Warning
The smaller streets and alleys in my neighborhood are known in Thai as soi (pronounced like "soy"). Many of them have no proper footpaths and pedestrians wobble along uneven pavement, avoiding traffic...
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Katsu at J Curry
There is a small Japanese curry stand located on the basement level of the UBC II Building at the mouth of Soi Sukhumvit 33. Outdoors, directly across from the entrance to the Londoner Pub, the J Curry...
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Trying for Some Perspective on the Gun Control Debate
Half a world away, I have read, watched, and listened to the debate over gun control in the United States, dismayed by the rhetoric and disturbed at how two hyperbole-fueled extremes frame the...
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Pancakes with Ice Cream?
It must be a cultural thing. Saturday morning Tawn and I went to a local branch of the Australian chain The Coffee Club for breakfast. Since I had been really good all week, working out and eating...
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Green Shoots
Just hung up on my final conference call, the last thing I had to do for my job. That's it, after more than thirteen years with the company, it is over. It is hard not to be a bit sad. There's a lot...
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