Word: taipei
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Hwang had not always been so sensitive, so ready to take offense. Although his parents were immigrants and he visited relatives in Manila and Taipei, this self-described "Chinese-Filipino-American, born-again-Christian kid from suburban Los Angeles" felt "scarcely more connection than the average white" between Asian life and his own. "I read Pearl Buck in high school and didn't see anything wrong. I still like Charlie Chan movies. The whole thing about being of Chinese descent seemed an interesting detail, as if I had red hair. But not everyone saw it that way." So Hwang embarked...
...sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...distinctly human scale. Today roughly a quarter of the republic's 41 million people live in the city whose very name means capital, yet the feel of the place is oddly uncongested. Here is not just another high-rising Asian metropolis, like Hong Kong or Singapore or Taipei, but a compact and manageable place of little lanes and neighborhood stores, of tree-lined streets given a sense of space and rough lyricism by the granite hills that surround them. Nature is more in evidence here than Industry: to go from one downtown hotel to another, one drives around the side...