Smart Asia Getaways
Discover Asia, the smart way
As I write this, I’m sitting in Brooklyn, where it’s 12 degrees Farenheit. In Hong Kong, where it’s 11:30pm, it’s 61. Which does more than hint at the therapy one can...
I’ve looked forward to writing this review. I stayed in three hotels this trip (not to mention hundreds in my life), and my experience at each subsequent hotel underscored the superiority...
I’ll save you the suspense: skip the Temple Street Night Market. Sure – go to the neighborhood – the Jordan Street stop on the Red Line. For browsing, people, watching, and...
A trip to New York will keep a first-timer busy. Why? Try figuring out JFK to Brooklyn on your own without a cab. The designers of Hong Kong’s public transit system,...
The most famous Taiwanese restaurant in the world came into being because its founder, a Chinese man named Yang Bingyi, couldn’t sell cooking oil. Let’s back up. Let’s talk about soup...
I’m going to depart from the usual staid, scholarly, detached-sounding travel-writing-y style characteristic of most travel blogs and articles. Actually full stop. I was never really in that wheelhouse in the...