Burma (Myanmar) remains on my Top 3 favorite places I’ve traveled to (among the top 3 is India & Israel). It’s not the type of favoring I typically have for a party central Greece or a culinary heaven France. It is more of a […]
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Oh my. What a discovery today! I parked my car at Westwood Village for a quick errand to Verizon for my Blackberry. I glanced out to the street and realized that Farmers Market was going on. I strolled out through the crowds of UCLA students and noticed the Middle-eastern stand
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Most people can’t quite understand or imagine the hood I grew up in. Hacienda Heights? San Gabriel Valley? “Is that like.. San Bernardino?? Umm like Pomona?” It’s the same as explaining how to pronounce my last name. I’ll just remain quiet and let you figure it out. But thankfully to the Fung Brothers, they’ve made
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Where does one go to find the best Chinese Food in Southern California? Perhaps even in the US? It is arguably in the area I grew up in: the San Gabriel Valley! You can forget about China Town in Downtown Los Angeles as most Chinese people find the food greasy and un-authentic. To find the most
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We often forget how lucky we are. Statistically they say, we’re better off than 99% of the world, those that live in the US that is. We often watch World news, Documentaries, starving children in Charity ads, and we are reminded that there are people who’s fate brought them onto earth in a very different
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Goji berries is a dried berry that my grandma fed me growing up as snacks and as an antioxidant ingredient in her Chicken soup. As what I thought was another Chinese Eastern belief, she’d say “Eat it! It’s good for your eyes & it’ll help you live longer!” So I did, and much enjoyed eating
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I had the honor to interview the altruistic founder of Kids of Kilimanjaro, George Namkung, on his praiseworthy Charity that provides lunch to 15,000 kids a day in the beautiful mountaintop of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. […]
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From Kunming, we took a flight to Lijiang, where we were greeted at the airport by a gregarious older man who drove us into town. The funny thing about taxi drivers is that they are the same candid selves mainly anywhere you travel. You will get the juiciest local gossip, and outspoken words on what
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In Lijiang, we started the day horseback riding with the Naxi ethnic group with the most hilarious guide. He was cracking jokes with us from the start, spitting out random english words he knew, while serenading to us “Ali-san gu-niang” by Teresa Teng. For those that know Mandarin, […]
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I was one of the few people born and raised in Los Angeles County, California. In an area where many would call the “real Chinatown” or “Little Taiwan”: Hacienda Heights. I spent my college years outside of LA in Riverside where I found great surprising joy in the ‘simple life’. The years after college was
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