Nah, I don’t need to follow my directions. I wandered towards Taipei 101, the iconic building that consistently serves as a directional landmark while traipsing around the city. I was determined to locate a perch from which to bask in the final hours of sun… Read More
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Beyond Stinky Tofu
Ubiquitous are the essential staples in Korean cuisine: seaweed, rice cakes, bean sprouts, seaweed, sweet potatoes, fish cakes, red bean, spam, meat on meat on meat and, of course, kimchi and all that fermented cabbage goodness in all its glory. For an outsider, repetitive ingredients… Read More
Into the Land of Milk Tea
I woke up on the morning of November 8, 2013 with butterflies in my stomach. After a quick 6 days back in Seoul, I had traded my down sleeping bag from Nepal for bikinis and sunscreen. I was super pumped to be heading to the… Read More
Flash!
Two years teaching of teaching 6-year-olds in Seoul flew by in a flash. It feels like it was just yesterday that I first touched down in Seoul via San Francisco, overeager to begin a new adventure and totally, blissfully unaware of what I was getting… Read More