there are things i love to do purely for nostalgic reasons – walking on former school grounds, listening to melancholic pop music from a decade or two ago, re-visiting restaurants i remember fondly from my childhood travels.  this time, tu hsiao yueh, from tainan to taipei – from being sold on a yoke [...]

I was born an adventurous eater.  While the lunchboxes of my elementary school mates were filled with aluminum wrapped peanut butter and jelly, ham and cheese and egg salad sandwiches, mine often had well seasoned leftovers from our previous night’s family dinner – duck liver and minced quail stir fry, bitter melon soup, [...]