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2 min readJapan
Views: 0For more than a thousand years Kyoto was where Japan's emperors lived. The city today is a set of layers: a grid plan from the 8th century, temples from many eras, and an ordinary modern city in between.
2 min readLife
Views: 0Matcha has travelled from Japanese tea rooms to cafés all over the world. What it actually is, how it is made, and why it tastes the way it does.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0Before it was a lantern-lit old town, Hội An was a river port where Champa, Japanese, Chinese and European traders passed through. How trade built the town, and how the end of trade preserved it.
3 min readTaiwan
Views: 0Taiwan's oldest city was its capital for more than two centuries. Today it is known for temples on almost every street, slow afternoons and food that leans a little sweet.
1 min readPoetry
Views: 3Some nights I dream of days: four rows of greens, flowers in twelve vases.
2 min readPhoto Essays
Views: 0Silk lanterns in Hội An, rows of red lanterns in Kaohsiung, a single red lantern outside a Japanese bar. The same object carries very different messages.
2 min readTravel
Views: 0Kyoto has Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines side by side, and each has its own small customs. Knowing a few of them makes a visit calmer for everyone.
2 min readThoughts
Views: 0Marketing taught me to love metrics. Research is teaching me to distrust the easy ones, and to ask what a number is really standing in for.
1 min readNotes
Views: 0Silky water, streaks of traffic, empty-looking streets. What a long exposure does, and the few tools and settings it really needs.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0A city built on a bend of the Red River, shaped by lakes, guild streets and four distinct seasons. A short profile of Vietnam's capital and what gives it its particular character.
3 min readTaiwan
Views: 0Taipei sits in a basin ringed by mountains, and each part of the city holds a different chapter of its history: old river ports in the west, a colonial-era centre, and a glass-and-steel east.
2 min readJapan
Views: 0Tokyo has no single downtown. It is a ring of districts, each with its own station, mood and history, held together by trains. A short profile of how the city grew and how to read it.
5 min readThoughts
Views: 1A fight with my brother, a friendship that ended in silence, and what I learned about words.
2 min readLife
Views: 0Bubble tea was born in Taiwan, and ordering it here is a small language of its own. Notes on sugar levels, ice levels and why the drink matters.
2 min readTravel
Views: 0Two days are not enough to know Taipei, but they are enough to like it. A loose plan built around the MRT, a few landmarks and the evenings.
1 min readNotes
Views: 0The short window after sunset when the sky turns deep blue and city lights come on. A few practical notes on making the most of it.
