Bob Bob Ricard, Soho

I’ve heard a lot about Bob Bob Ricard.  The restaurant’s savvy owners have hosted a number of blogger events, which have resulted in positive reviews like this one and this one.  The place has always sounded like a lot of fun, and the Russian-British comfort food menu, intriguing.  However, much as I longed to test [...]

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48 Hours of Eating in Hong Kong

After our trip to Taiwan, Jon and I spent three nights in Hong Kong, partly because we flew Cathay Pacific and had to stop there anyway.  (Incidentally, the economy class seats on Cathay Pacific are awful.  They don’t recline!  Rather, the seat’s bottom cushion slides forward, which causes you to sink down at an awkward [...]

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Passports With Purpose fundraising (today’s the last day)

Clearly I am guilty of the blogger equivalent of living under a rock.  For the last month, a whole bunch of travel bloggers have been busy fundraising for Friends of LAFTI (Land for Tillers’ Freedom).  I just noticed this today, which happens to be the last day to enter to win a lot of incredible [...]

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Shilin night market, Taipei, Taiwan

Night markets are a feature of many Southeast-Asian cities (well, definitely cities with large Chinese populations, anyway), and while I appreciate the beauties of a sunny daytime market in, say, France and Italy, in my opinion, night markets are the best of the market genre. First, they’re practical.  When you’re in a hot, tropic climate, [...]

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Restaurants and Dining Out in Taipei, Taiwan

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all my American readers!  I trust you all gave thanks, over-ate and over-shopped. It’s been exactly a week since I’ve returned to London after having spent 9 days in Taiwan and 3 days in Hong Kong.  I’m still jetlagged beyond belief, which is yet another annoying sign that I’m getting old. [...]

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