[Edit: Ishin Udon Kobo is no longer. A loss from which I shall never recover.] One time when I was a kid, I was demolishing a bowl of noodles when my mother discovered to her slight horror that I ate them by sucking down the strands intact. So great was my enthusiasm for eating one […]
Tag Archives: Asian
Yummy Yume // Neukölln’s new Japanese dumpling bar
In a rare moment of megalomania, I recently crowned myself on Instagram as Berlin’s biggest dumpling fanatic. Sylee of Berlin Reified kindly humoured me and retorted by calling me “the city’s official Queen of Dumplings.” The occasion: I’d just published my second feature-length dumpling article in Zitty magazine. The first, back in January, was about […]
Tasty Taiwan // Finding the flavours of my homeland in Berlin
“Where are you from?” Here’s the medium-length version of my complicated answer to this simple question: Born in Vancouver to a Canadian father and a Taiwanese mother. Moved to Taiwan at nine months, where I lived, apart from two years in Beijing, until I was 13. I then joined my sister at a Canadian boarding […]