obama cookies
a hit at the Market in Ottawa, ever since the first Presidential visit: maple-leaf shaped cookies with “Canada” emblazoned on them.
st-siméon ferry
Mixed it up this time on this trip to NB and drove north of the Saint-Laurent instead of the highway south, crossing over to Rivière-du-Loup using the ferry at St-Siméon. and what a fancy ferry it was! first there were the binoculars and the elevator… then there was the diner and bar: and hmm, what else? how about an enclosed … Read More
shilin night market
one of the side entrances to the largest night market in taipei: and the food that is there: meat skewers (pick whichever you want, and she’ll fry them for you), lemon jelly drink, pan-fried buns (qian bao) with vegetable or meat fillings, and cool looking roti machine. but my favourite is the “pulled” roti (zhua bing)–fluffy, buttery, and scallion-y–which I … Read More
yonghe night market
fresh fruit, candied fruit (and a cute kid), shoe market, chopstick vendor & tea shop…
breakfast in taipei
I was in Taipei for the holidays, and each day before driving to my grandparents’ apartment we would eat or pick up breakfast at a soy milk place. Typical dishes served at a place like this include: bowl of hot sweet soy milk (熱豆漿) or “salty” soy milk (鹹豆漿), bowl of rice milk (米漿), scallion pancakes (蔥油餅, with or without … Read More
alaska + william shatner
I’m now back from a few weeks of traveling–to Anchorage for a wedding, Toronto (incl. a trip to Niagara Falls) and Fredericton to see friends and family, and finally Albany to complete the swearing-in for admission to the NY bar (and gain the pompous title “Esquire”). […]… Read More
hallo oslo
in oslo on holiday before heading to hanoi. the city is quite walkable (small, with a population of about half a million), pretty, and yes, cold (ok, maybe I’m just complaining, but it’s about 15 degrees here). can you imagine actually having civilized public transportation? get this: stops for both trams and buses have signs indicating how many minutes … Read More
hk-taipei-anchorage-nyc-mtl
surprised to be happy to pass through the US (customs aside, of course): unexpected layover in alaska with its gorgeous mountains, black people at JFK yelling 行李 to direct the passengers from our taiwanese flight… spent most of 20ish hours in transit in a semi-stupor (like usual, I barely slept the night before–and had a great weekend in HK), but … Read More