The Scent of Greene Papaya
Vietnam Voices
“The smell: that’s the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul.”
— Graham Greene
"Không có chuyện gì xảy ra, nhưng mọi thứ diễn ra thật...
The View From Nowhere
A philosophical investigation into perception, thought, and being
The eye cannot see itself.
— Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 5.633
For Canard
I absolutely adore ducks; I’ve nibbled on their webs and sucked on their tongues in...
Lo Bak Go: The Golden Cake That Crossed the Sea
Chinese Fried Radish Cake (蘿蔔糕)
Few dishes tell a story quite as quietly, or as completely, as lo bak go. To look at it on the...
The Alchemy of Steam: The Story of Xiao Long Bao (小笼包)
You never forget your first taste of the little pleated dumpling filled with soup and pork, known as xiaolongbao. This is ostensibly because it...
Be Cos - Reflections on the Lake
The expansive Inle Lake in southern Shan State, Myanmar, is calm, tranquil and alluring. Its beauty is seductive, but like the siren’s song it carries questions—questions not...
1961 Château Latour à Pomerol
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
— Thomas Merton
On a perfectly quiet and very still evening on a lake, so incredibly and perfectly...
Dan Tat
“To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.”
― Chuang Tzu
The art of eating an egg tart in Hong Kong is a ritual centred on freshness, timing, and sensory indulgence, characterised by...
Samai
“Our poets are not rum drinkers; poets arrive much later to recast the scene. It is the rum drinkers who are the risk takers, the romantics, the revolutionaries, the pirates who ride the...
