Sometimes I dream I'm living in Bangkok's Chinatown, a Chinatown like no other that I've been to. It's enormous, and every night it's packed with people who are mainly there to eat.

I thought the simple pleasure of flying a kite was a product of my childhood (when my frazzled mom suggested that I do just that). But no, this is an ancient invention dating back 2,000-3,000 years in China…

Who doesn’t like ramen? Like American chicken noodle soup, pho in Vietnam, Mexican tortilla soup, or Tuscan bean soup, it’s comfort food.

The first time we were headed to Greece, we were going to island hop around the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea for a couple of weeks.

Din Tai Fung may only be a dumpling joint at heart, but it is legendary.  It’s everywhere in Asia, popping up in America, and immensely popular wherever you can find one.

Paris at sunrise. The simple pleasure of going out in the morning to buy a fresh baguette.

You've seen it in millions of films (Lost in Translation, The Fast and Furious, etc.): that crazy intersection jammed with people in Tokyo.

What do you do for a significant wedding anniversity? Rent a French chateau on a lake in the Loire Valley with 32 bedrooms and invite 60 or so of your best friends, of course.

One sunny and sticky afternoon, we arrived at a lovely white mansion on a back street in Bangkok to have lunch.

How often do you get to eat authentic Malaysian food? If you live in Sydney, Australia, you can find it at Ho Jiak, one of four restaurants by Chef Junda Khoo.

Like San Francisco and New York City, food trucks are big in Tokyo. Well not exactly big but tiny in fact.

I’m a big fan of Jean-Georges. We’ve been to many of his restaurants in New York; they are all unique, and the food never lets you down.

OK, so if you’re a young bro, you probably go to smoke some legal weed (come on guys, it’s legal nearly everywhere now) and gawk at the women in the windows in the red-light district. 

Noma is a three-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi, and co-founded by Claus Meyer, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It’s a schlep to get to X’ian China and the day we were there, the air was so bad that our eyes were burning.

Aspen Colorado has a reputation for being a playground for billionaires.

We’ve all been in traffic jams before, right? But there are American traffic jams like LA and then there are epic traffic jams like Bangkok.

All those years we lived in New York City we never got around to eating at Le Bernardin, the legendary three-star Michelin restaurant by Eric Ripert which opened in 1986.

Even in the depths of COVID, the Parisians had a sense of humor. 

Years ago, I spent a week in San Sebastian to attend a Spanish language immersion class.