Hong Kong, Part One
The Man Mo Temple Hong Kong reminds me of Juneau… both are cities squeezed onto land and islands between mountains and water. Though Hong...
Suzhou: Old China By Boat
For me, the name Suzhou (‘Sue-joe’) will always evoke a 1500-year-old city of canals and canal-side houses festooned with comforters, but...
Shanghai Shindig
Blog photographer at work, after the extravaganza We were given a choice: Sign up for an expensive evening at the Chinese Acrobatic Show,...
Public Service Announcement
There’s still trouble in River City. When I ‘publish’ a new post, that’s supposed to immediately trigger an e-mail notification to your...
Shanghai: The Paris of the East
‘…Shanghai, which in 1935, Fortune called “the megalopolis of continental Asia, inheritor of ancient Baghdad, of pre-war Constantinople,...
Dance, Duds & Dim Sum
Okay, it was Shumai, but that doesn’t alliterate. Dance... A dance and instrumental troupe from Manila came on board Sunday to perform in...
Je cuis’, donc je suis.
I cook, therefore I am. Or, better still, Je mange, donc je cuis’. My bridge buddies will be disappointed that I’m not playing much...
Manila: The Pearl of the Orient
Jeepneys are everywhere.. cheap local transport Welcome to ‘the most densely populated city proper in the world’ [Wiki], with 1.8...
Mari, Mari: Head Hunters Ahead!
‘Mari Mari’ means ‘Come Come’ in the, or a, Malaysian language. There are 3.5 million people living in Sabah, the Borneo portion of...
Borneo, Twice Over
All right, I didn’t know that the majority of Borneo is in fact part of Indonesia. And, aside from being the third largest island in the...
