Cantonese Clean vs. Sichuan Burn: Can’t We Just Taste the Food?
Tastebuds Don’t Lie It’s 37°C in Guangzhou, and someone nearby is drowning tofu in chili oil like it’s a sport. Me? I’m clutching my 清蒸鲈鱼 (steamed sea bass) like a…
Pretend Travel: The Weibo Trend That Roasted Travel Influencers
The last thing I searched?“Fake travel trend China.”Not because I wanted to roast it (yet), but because a Bilibili clip popped up of a girl “boarding” a plane with nothing…
What I Love About Where I Live (Hanoi Edition)
It’s 6:47 AM and the city’s already sweating. The woman downstairs is chopping lemongrass like it owes her money. A rooster screams from somewhere that definitely isn’t a farm. My…
What I Enjoy Most About Writing
Hijacking Your Brain, One Sentence at a Time What do I enjoy most about writing?The power trip. The delicious little thrill of pulling you right out of your scrolling stupor…
Dogs or Cat? The Chaos Queen
Her Royal Nakedness She enters every room like she owns it.Correction—she enters every room because she does own it.The air shifts. Your coffee trembles. Your socks mysteriously vanish. She’s pinkish…
If My Blog Could Change One Thing
The Heat Beneath the Words If you could sit beside me in a hawker stall in Singapore at 2:47 PM, here’s what you’d notice first:The plastic chair is still warm…
The “Authentic” Obsession
You scroll for five minutes.Blog post, caption, vlog, caption again—and there it is. Authentic. That moment, that salad, that lantern-lit noodle stall someone queued 40 minutes for after seeing it…
What a Broken Train Clock Taught Me About Time (and Other Lies)
The Clock That Lied: A Meditation on Digital Betrayal Let’s set the scene: a local train station in the Netherlands. Or was it Germany? Honestly, once you’ve seen one spotless…