I thought it’d be fitting to revisit and finally get down to my Berlin posts as my best friend from Beijing was visiting this week over Christmas. A core part of my “growing up” into adulthood during my 4+ years working and living in Beijing with friends I have made for life. Earlier in the […]
Just wrapping my posts on my recent quick work trip to Tokyo. I still have to catch up on France over the summer and Berlin favourites this spring. Above gorgeous Meiji era colonial architecture by Terunobu Fujimori, a scholar of Western architecture and educated in London. It’s always nice to be back in Tokyo. I always […]
I have a love-hate relationship with Macau. While this socially shallow place leaves a gaping hole in my soul for the lack of intellectual stimulation in the community, there’s so much rich and deep cultural history in this country shadowed by the glitzy casinos and what’s brighter, bigger and better that’s making the news headlines. Most […]
In a recent article published, Marrakech sits on #6 of Trip Advisor’s Top 25 most popular destinations in the world. Chef loves the place so much having worked and lived there, we were even contemplating buying a dream home in there, but alas there are other priorities and bigger (real) dreams to chase. We rented […]
Several of my friends owned sidecars in Beijing and I commuted several times in them, it’s fun, but my main and preferred transport remains the humble bicycle. We started with a stop at the local quarters and a little tour through the market, frogs and all on sale alongside noodle and dumpling makeshift stalls. […]
Palais Namaskar is a gorgeous palatial hotel is a little drive out of the city centre and an oasis of tranquility – crazy high ceilings, beautiful mix of Indian and Moorish architectural influence with Feng Shui principles incorporated to the design of the resort. It’s been all over travel magazines since it’s opening, so I’ve […]
14 months in Macau which hasn’t exactly been easy with the paradigm shift in my life. The most asked question in recent years: How on earth did I end up here? I quit my life as I knew it in Hong Kong, career and all and moved to Macau for love, registered a startup that I […]
Touted as one of the world’s top boutique hotels, the Commune by the Great Wall is run by the Kempinski Hotel Group, and the brainchild of visionary entrepreneur, Zhang Xin, the co-founder and co-CEO of SOHO China, a Beijing-based real-estate developer. Her bold initiative brought together 12 Asian architects to explore the vast potential of […]