Weary-Eyed Wanderings

Weary-Eyed Wanderings

Singaporehawker center, m hotel, mad men attic bar, maxwell, shopping

My head was already cloudy getting out into Changi Airport. Those bombarding images of McDonalds and Popeyes didn’t phase me. I was used to seeing Western influence in the major Eastern city. And even though this was my first time to Singapore, I guess I would be more shocked if they didn’t have those shops

Chinatown Summer Nights

Chinatown Summer Nights

Los Angelesart gallery, beer garden, bruce lee, chinatown, chinatown summer nights, food truck, live band

These events were usually about opening up the traditional Chinatown facade to DJ’s, food trucks, and street vendors, a sorta night market, neon style. However, this night was not only in honor of Chinatown’s 75 anniversary, but it was about the unveiling of the first Bruce Lee statue to be raised in the U.S. And

Once Again, LA BBQ

Once Again, LA BBQ

Los Angelesamerican bbq, genwa, korean bbq, sauce, short rib, the parks finest

We started this day a little groggy from the drinking adventures we had around Koreatown. Gotta hand it to some of the expensive places. Some of them had really good pours and as you may know, some of them didn’t. Does it all even out? No. Because there was expensive and expensive’er. Only found one

Off the Grid – Presidio

Off the Grid – Presidio

San Franciscobiking, food truck, fried chicken, humphry slocomb, king crab sandwich, lamb burger, off the grid, picnic at the presidio

When the weather gets as good as it does like today – sunny, bright, high sixties, with random cold breezes. It was a perfect day to spend outside. Really. Any warmer around here and all the fedoras would look even more ridiculous. No joke. Anyways, being outside with food was the goal and we needed

Bay to Breakers Weekend

Bay to Breakers Weekend

San Franciscoanniversary, b2b 2013, bay to breakers, broken record, costumes, drink, race, rickybobby, run, suppenkuche

Bay to Breakers has always my favorite race. A time where people come together to show its colors in a journey from the one side of the city to the other. For some it was a goal to the finish, for the rest of us, it was to find all the fun. The funnest parts

Weddings and Korean BBQ

Weddings and Korean BBQ

Los Angelesbcd, camarillo, korea town, korean bbq, outlets, soowoon, wedding

Weekend trips to LA always means at least one night out in Korea Town. This was actually a healthy improvement over all the other time my friends and I come to visit. We would do nothing but lunch at a Korean place, dinner at a Korean place, drinking at a Korean place, and top it

Omakase at Eiji

Omakase at Eiji

San Francisco16th, castro, dolores, eiji, omakase, small restaurant, tofu

To spare you on the back story, I got treated to dinner for a hot tub incident. Yeah, I said I wasn’t going to talk about it. So let’s just say, out of it, I got to go to one of my favorite Japanese places, Eiji. It’s a small little place in the Castro near

Book Signing at SIPA

Book Signing at SIPA

Los Angeles85°C bakery, book, book signing, curbside craving, hayashi rice, little saigon, reading, SIPA, suehiro cafe

The main reason I was down in LA was to be at The Undeniable’s book launch party. But before the event, I headed down to Orange County to visit a friend and, of course, to eat! Felt like ages since I’ve been in the area. So many things have popped up since I lived down

Late Night Animal

Late Night Animal

Los Angelesanimal, bar seating, bone marrow, hamachi tostada, late night, quail, return

I was heading to Los Angeles for the weekend and after a long drive, I decided to stop by a restaurant I always wanted to try out, Animal (or for you Yelpers). The place might be a little hard to find having no sign, but if you look for people lining up on Fairfax, that

Au Revoir Taipei

Au Revoir Taipei

Taiwanantique assam tea farm, black tea, high speed railway, hsr, Mos Burger, shida, sun moon lake, taipei

It was the last day at Sun Moon Lake. The rain hadn’t let up, so probably good to leave since there was basically nothing to do but laze around the hotel room. Not a bad thing since I was leaving Taiwan altogether. On the way back to the train station we stopped by the Sun