Dubai: Eating chicken feet at The Sky Korean restaurant
The other night, my friend Peter and I went for dinner at The Sky, which is a Korean restaurant inside Golden Tulip Hotel in Al Barsha. It’s a casual, but…
Dubai: Beach season and Jelly Bunny shoes
It’s beach season in Dubai and for a long time, I’ve been looking for shoes to wear by the pool or at the beach. I find it hard to walk…
NYC: A Brooklyn detour and then Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
I’m usually quite good at taking the subway in Manhattan, but for some reason it often goes haywire, when I am going to Brooklyn. The other day, I was meeting…
NYC: Bagel breakfast at Barney Greengrass
Barney Greengrass! This is the place where I had my very first Lox & Cream Cheese Bagel many years ago. I try to go back, whenever I am in this…
Dubai: Roast – A Danish Cafe in Dubai Marina
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I cannot recall that there has ever been a Danish café or a Danish restaurant in Dubai. Instead, we had to make do with…
NYC: Seton Hotel – Nice budget hotel in Midtown
I often get emails from readers asking about cheap hotels in New York, so I found this blog post from my old blog about Seton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan that…
Dubai: Sticky Rice – The new Thai restaurant in JVC
The Thai restaurant Sticky Rice opened 3 months ago out in JVC, which is a residential area about a 15-minute-drive from Dubai Marina. Sticky Rice is one of the restaurants…
NYC: 3 Bridges to Walk
When jetlag still rules, and l wake up at 5 in the morning, one of my favorite pastimes is to go for a walk across one of the bridges between…
Copenhagen: Brunch at 8tallet
Last Thursday I met with Lise and Michael for brunch. They were so kind to come and pick me up at the Central Station, and from there, we drove out…
Copenhagen: Stegt flæsk at Nyboders Køkken
We eat a lot of pork in Denmark, so it should come as no surprise that stegt flæsk, fried pork belly, was voted the National Dish of Denmark in 2014.…
Seoul: Yeouido Hangang Park – Biking along Han River
Before jetting off in different directions, AC, Peter, Shinae and I had a couple of days together in Seoul, and one of the days, we decided to go biking along…
Dubai: Shakshouka at Creekside Cafe
The area around Dubai Creek is one of my favorite places in the city, and if the traffic wasn’t so horrible, I would go there all the time. For me,…
