Established 50 years ago, Din Tai Fung was named by the New York Times as one of the world’s top 10 restaurants in 1993. The queues are long at all hours of the day. But despite the dizzying pace at which customers come and go, the place is clean—and that includes the restrooms.
That’s some kind [...]
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Dinner on our first night in Taiwan was at the Fisherman’s Wharf on the northern coast.
There was lobster salad that I couldn’t touch because of an allergy.
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I don’t remember the last time I went to a shopping mall where there was an ongoing mall-wide sale and bought nothing. I don’t think it ever happened before. Well, until last Sunday. We only had time to eat, have coffee and watch Transformers.
My daughter Sam enjoyed herself immensely though. Taking photos.
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Published in the Life & Travel section of Manila Standard Today
The place was first recommended by a fellow lawyer who spent a few days there with her family. Then, it was again recommended by a fellow blogger who took his family there to celebrate their wedding anniversary and his wife’s birthday. I needed no more [...]
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There’s always a fiesta-like atmosphere here in May, the month when devotees flock to the Cathedral, home to the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (Nuestra Senora de la paz Y Buenviaje). About two and a half hours ago (that would be Sunday evening since it is early Monday morning here right now), while [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
