The stars of New York
It is not about Mr. Woody Allen, SJP, Meryl Streep or Liza Minnelli that I’m talking about. They are also "stars of New York", frankly speaking, but only hazard can provide you the opportunity to meet them in the ...
An outstanding lunch
There are many things in your life you bear in mind, for different reasons. Even a dish or a restaurant are kept in your memory, with heart and soul. For me, lunch at Asiate, in Mandarin Oriental Hotel, New York, was quite special. I decided to...
Of all kinds, with all kinds, for everybody
I don’t know if Chinese cuisine has any mantra, but the one above mentioned would fit it to a T. It is the only place in the world where the jokes with "fried scorpions sandwiches" would not be ...
"Sense and Sensibility" in Salon de Ville
No, we haven’t arrived in Miss Austen’s Haye Park, we are still in Shanghai, in a place where tea is art, modus vivendi, poetry and history (nevertheless, the Chinese are the "forefathers" of the tea, the first people on earth who ...
Shanghai shopping
It’s true what they say: China is the heaven of shopaholics. From the huge malls which scrape the clouds or lie on a long horizontal surface, in the big cities, to the small traditional shops in the ...
"Those who sing will always find music"
....as a Chinese saying goes. I found it hidden in a "fortune cookie", in a restaurant in Shanghai. I’ve just remembered of it, while wondering why, from all the cities in the world, in which I went, in Shanghai I was ...
