Travel Moments

A lot of restaurants in China are clean and the food is prepared quite safely. However, it’s sometimes tough to tell the clean restaurant from the cockroach-infested ones, and if you like going out to small, cheap restaurants, you have ...

I’m writing this entry from Hong Kong, where I’m spending the week. I will return to Shanghai Friday night. Helene and I elected for a quick vacation to Hong Kong during the May Holidays, a national holiday in China. Helene ...

“Too many stupid meetings can change a man’s Destiny.” – Lt. Koji Shinjo, Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla

I apologize in advance to Chinese friends and acquaintances who might be reading this blog, but I want to get this off my chest. Saturday, universities in a number of Chinese cities held massive anti-Japanese rallies. In Shanghai, 20,000 people ...

A long, long time ago, back when Helene and I were still deciding whether we wanted to move to Asia, a good friend from Hong Kong explained to me that debts were a typically North American thing. He explained to ...