Driving along the winding highways of Mexico City, it’s easy to spot the tacky red pagoda-style roofs and ostentatious oriental decor of Chinese restaurants. It’s a standard that seems to be reproduced every few blocks...
Lisa Cheung
Lisa Cheung
Macau: Where Portugal met China beyond gambling
If you have ever visited Macau, chances are that you have come across this glass and steel shrine to its fervent gambling and casino culture. It is the Grand Lisboa, the tallest building in Macau. It is the king of...
Hakone: A Japanese Weekend Getaway
Tokyo is unmistakably iconic with its hyper-eccentric, electric Akihabara district; or the quirky artisan boutiques and streets of high-fashion Harajuku; or even the upmarket posh and glam of Ginza. Wherever you go...
Women at the top of their game: A year in design and art
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] 80 years ago, German-American artist Hans Hofmann looked at Lee Krasner’s work and said that it was “so...
Ode to the Pretty Guardian Sailor Soldier
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] 2017 marks the 25th Anniversary of the debut of Naoko Takeuchi’s love-action sensation Sailor Moon. Fans...
My week in Izu: a million bustles away from Tokyo
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] There is a very particular word in Japanese called せせらぎ (seseragi) that is commonly used by locals from the tiny township of Izu in Shizuoka, just 150 kilometers...