The Last Emperor Theme by David Byrne played in my mind as I walked into the Forbidden City for the very first time. So affective was the c...

South of Tiananmen Square finds the old Qianmen Gate or Zhengyangmen, guarded by the grey archery tower called Jianlou. It has been converte...

I was still reading Frank Dikötter’s Mao's Great Famine before leaving for Beijing. For obvious reasons, the book did not follow me on ...

The idea of visiting this 3 Michelin stars restaurant came just as I'd signed up for the Hong Kong Marathon. I decided to go for their m...

The theme, in Chinese, for this year's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon is 從 心 出 發, 跑 出 信 念. It can be loosely translated as run fr...

Two weeks ago, when I slipped my left foot into the work shoe after a 20 km run, my sole felt sore. It was bad enough to keep me agitated th...

The Champagne Pool is one of the major attractions at Wai-O-Tapu Geothermal Wonderland, which is located near Rotorua. When I came across a ...

When you’re in the adventure capital of the world, you live it. Sometimes, when travelling, the mind is best left at home. Until the day I j...

The thought of Nakhon Kitchen whets up my appetite easily. And I've only been there once. When I order pineapple fried rice, I often (if...

4 December 2011 (Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore) Once again, I’d followed a high, good fats and potassium-rich diet of salmon, avocad...