I always try to eat local food when I travel. After a few trips to Singapore, I’m starting to get the hang of the local cuisine. Here are some of my favorites - each is a mouth watering dish eaten by locals every day, so they are easy to find:
1. Hainanese chicken rice […]
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If baseball is America’s favorite pastime, then shopping is Singapore’s. Singapore is considered Asia’s shopping paradise, where you can find every one of your favorite designer brands.
By coincidence, the annual “Great Singapore Sale” is happening right now, from May 25 to July 22. You can find great bargains at all the major […]
What a long day. After only a few hours of sleep from, my partner picked me up in the morning at 9 am and dropped me back at the hotel at 8 pm. I was so tired that I stumbled back to my room and crashed right away.
During the day we visited three […]
After 27 hours of traveling, I arrived in Singapore to start my current Asian tour. My trip started in Denver, then onto San Francisco, a stop over in Hong Kong and finally Singapore. It’s such a long trip, and with the time difference, I’m usually exhausted when I arrive. But for some […]
Over the last twenty years, the Chinese government has effectively attracted foreign investment by setting up special economic zones in key cities. Foreign companies that invested in these economic zones got some nice tax breaks. They didn’t have to pay income tax for first 2 years and therafter were taxed at 15%. In comparison, […]
Its no secret that the Chinese stock market is booming and the value of the RMB is increasing. Wondering if I could (let alone should) invest in the Shanghai stock market, when I was in Shanghai earlier this year I did some investigating. I know a lot of people also wonder about […]
China, with 1.3 billion people and a booming economy, is irresistible to most American companies. But a dream does not make reality - over the years many of have tried to crack the mysteries of the Chinese market and many have failed. If you talk to companies that have tried, including […]
I created a map of my favorite restaurants in Denver to share among my friends. Here are some of the restaurants in my list.
Mizuna (Contemporary)
Sushi Tazu (Japanese)
Golden Plate (Chinese)
J’s Noddle (Thai)
Carmine’s On Penn (Italian)
Proto’s Pizza
Blue Bonnet (Mexican)
Limon (Peruvian)
Being a big fan of “The Police’, I am happy they’ve reunited for their 2007 summer tour, in 31 cities, 29 in US, 2 in Europe (including 2 nights in Denver!). I mapped out their entire tour on MapBuzz - see http://www.mapbuzz.com/viewer/572
I discovered the leek diet from Mireille Guiliano’s best seller “French women don’t get fat.” Suggested by the author, the leek diet involves drinking nothing but leek broth and water for a weekend. Supposedly, a typical French woman does this two to four times a year.
This weekend I decided to give it […]
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