I never thought I’d enjoy a sunset so much while riding around in a bus. As we moved, the golden light of the setting sun …
Crossing the Han River
The Han River cuts through the center of Seoul. It’s a wide river that was important in Seoul’s development as the locus of power and …
Lonely Seoul
It’s the great paradox of large metropolises: millions of people packed into a single place and nearly everyone is lonely. I sense it most when …
Just one more hit: the street food of Seoul
Warning: the following post is rated PG-13.
In Seoul I’m always hungry and full at the same time. I walk around completely full from gorging all …
Growing up on seolleongtang
When I was a kid, my dad used to wake me up well before dawn on a Sunday morning to go fishing. We would drive …
A farm table in Yangshuo
Our first day in Yangshuo was cool and overcast. We read it as an invitation to bike around and photograph the picturesque countryside. Biking is …
Yangshuo in black and white
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But when the famous limestone hills of Yangshuo along the Li River leave you speechless, a …
OKCM’s CD player
One of the inevitable things that happens when you have so many people living in a relatively small tract of land is you get some …
Caviar and the FedEx driver
A few years ago, I was dining alone at the counter at Gary Danko – easily the poshest dining experience in San Francisco – and …
Winky face
Things are cuter in Asia. American comic books have gym rats in spandex slicing people up or shooting cosmic rays out of their eyes. Asian …