Today, it's one of the most peaceful locations in the city. The gardens are beautifully landscaped and connected by long, low archways that are remnant of the Qing Dynasty's architecture. There are ponds, waterfalls, dragonflies; everything you might associate with ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Dim Sum Dialogues: Kowloon Walled City
Today, it's one of the most peaceful locations in the city. The gardens are beautifully landscaped and connected by long, low archways that are remnant of the Qing Dynasty's architecture. There are ponds, waterfalls, dragonflies; everything you might associate with ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: The sounds of Siam
Monks chant at Wat Chana Songkhram, near Khao San Road.
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It's my last day in Bangkok and I'm not ready to leave Thailand. ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: Ko Samui
My ears are still ringing from the stacks of speakers that exhilarated Haad Rin all night. The lack of sleep is making my eyes heavy, but the lurching of the ferry refuses to let my body sleep. I'm departing Ko Pha Ngan and am en route to Ko Samui - the largest island in ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: Full Moon Party
The big night has finally arrived - a fact made tangible by the surreal moon strung up in the sky by wispy clouds. Legend has it that the first party was held in 1985 for a crowd of 25-30 backpackers. Word of mouth spread and caused the gathering to escalate with every ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: Ko Pha Ngan
After what feels like hours, the ferry disembarks on a small dock that ends where a group of Thai people in hats and sunglasses are standing. They're holding signs for connecting rides to hotels or offering cheap bus fares to various beaches on the island. I suppose one ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: The road (+ rail + ferry) to Ko Pha Ngan
The neon pink taxi screeches to a halt. "You must be the best taxi driver in Bangkok." I declare to the driver, and I mean it. Moments ago we were at a complete standstill for nearly twenty minutes, in the center of a jammed four-lane road. An everyday occurrence in ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: Bangkok
The city of Bangkok is a dichotomy between peaceful Buddhist temples & sordid red light districts. Beautiful national monuments & shoddy patches of low-income housing. Large, upscale shopping malls & equally large, rickety floating markets. Bright pink taxis ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: Street music
It's 3 o'clock in the morning and most of the rowdy backpackers have deserted Bangkok's Khao San Road. A large rat scurries down the gutter of the street, stopping only to inspect trash and empty plastic buckets that have been strewn about the pavement. A few dispersed ...Dim Sum Dialogues in Thailand: The Khao San
All this month, Dim Sum Dialogues will be bringing you stories from the road. The first destination: Thailand - from Bangkok to Ko Phan Ngan...to discover the hype behind the legendary Full Moon Parties.
It's approaching midnight fast, and the immigration lines in ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Wan Chai
The streets are seedy, ragged and flooded with dim red, yellow, and orange neon lights. In between tiny food stalls and convenience stores, dozens of young filipino and thai women in short leather miniskirts loiter outside modest club entrances. Sometimes they call out ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Expat ultimate frisbee
Confession time. Time to come clean. It's something I've been meaning to get off my chest for a while. Something I didn't know how to bring up before, but here goes... I did the most caucasian thing that an expat living in Hong Kong could do. I joined an ultimate frisbee ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Ngong Ping
The world's largest outdoor seated bronze buddha. It sounds more like an obscure sports statistic than a record for a religious statue - and it left me to wonder - where does the largest indoor standing silver buddha reside? My skepticism about the buddha at Ngong Ping ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Double Happiness
In a continuation from yesterday on my post about Hong Kong weddings, I wanted to shed some light on the interesting history behind a prominent symbol that can be found decorating virtually every wedding in China. Double Happiness.
Sometimes translated as "double ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Love & Marriage
Weddings in Hong Kong are big business. In every district, small shops advertise dress tailoring, videography or photography packages, and event planning services. Go into any of the big hotels on a weekend and you'll find over 300 people congregating in the grand ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Family Business
I arrive at the Houston Center of East Tsim Sha Tsui dripping in sweat - a product of the battle between Hong Kong's unforgiving humidity and my mild-weather Californian blood. I'm here to meet with 23-year-old Ray Lok, a mutual friend and aspiring businessman in Hong ...Dim Sum Dialogues: The Chungking Mansions
This is Nadim. Nadim is originally from Pakistan. He came to Hong Kong seven years ago with his wife and two children to find a better life. He tells me that he never envisioned his better life to be what he has today, but he's happy, and enjoying moderate success selling ...Dim Sum Dialogues : Getting down to business
Let's face it - if you're an aspiring businessperson or entrepreneur, there's an excellent chance that you'll be doing business in China within the next decade. Whether it's manufacturing, finance, or trading - China has the second largest economy in the world and isn't ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Little Manila
Dark clouds rumble through the steel corridors of Central - the remaining signs of a level nine typhoon that swept through Hong Kong last night. I dash out of the MTR station onto the wet streets, and gaze at hundreds of dark-haired, dark-skinned people around me. A ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Chinese Tea
One of my only objectives this weekend was to write an article about traditional Chinese tea. I had been entertaining visions of myself walking down a dark side street in Central and discovering an old wooden tea house guarded by an ancient man with a long wispy beard. I ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Planes, Trams, & Automatic Doors
This is a continuation of yesterday's column on the transportation of Hong Kong. After seeing various Youtube videos of the infamous landing at Hong Kong's now defunct Kai Tak Airport, I'm disappointed that I never had the chance to experience a 747 roaring over a narrow ...
