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 …
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 of Gary Danko – easily the poshest restaurant in San Francisco – and I …
Catching up to dan dan mein
The only noodle soup that has any cache in America is chicken noodle soup, which is usually found in cans on supermarket shelves. Typically, it’s …
Out of mushy pulp
I can’t recall the name of it, but one of my favorite books when I was very young was about a boy, about my age …