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 I have a hyperopic view of a city: driving over the hills towards the Los Angeles basin at night, or … Read More →
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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 day, but I keep coming across such delicious foods that I continue to jam more food down my throat until … Read More →
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 to a pier in Long Beach while it was still dark outside and take a boat out to a barge … Read More →
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 cartoons have characters who shudder with emotions and have eyes that glisten underneath blue hair that gently twirl in the … Read More →