2020 has been an extremely crazy year. Because of COVID-19 all of my vacation plans has been changed and/or cancelled. But interestingly, it is the same for almost everyone around the world, and this creates an opportunity for us. For example, typically if we wants to visit Yellowstone National Park and stay inside the park …
So this past weekend, for the first time in my life I restrung my own tennis racquet. Last Thursday, during my tennis lesson, I broke both of my tennis racquet strings. So it usually cost me around $40 per racquet to restring at the shop, for both racquet would cost me around $80 plus it …
After my 2019 December Japan trip, I been craving Karaage. Amazingly, one of the best Karaage that I had in Japan was in a 7-Eleven. It was crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside. So I decided to make my own at home. From Japan, we brought back a fryer pot, so it was …
Like everyone during the lockdown, I am reaching deep into my inner chef and trying new things to cook. One of the new dished that I tried a few weeks ago was the Mouth-Watering Chicken (Kou Shui Ji, 口水雞). Direct translation sometimes call it “Saliva Chicken”? …. Mouth-Watering Chicken sounds much better. Anyways, it is …
This weekend is the first-ever Easter weekend with a global lockdown. But even though it is an amazingly beautiful weekend here in Seattle, it is a weekend where Seattle shut down most of the popular parks and public areas. So, I saw this video on youtube of using whiskey to marinate steak. The video made …
In Summer of 1991, on independence day week, I attended the US Space Academy. As with many kids back then, it was my dream to be an astronaut and I wanted to go to space, and attending “SPACE CAMP” was my dream. But little did I know, I had a chance to spend an entire …
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Today is day one of Seattle’s lockdown… I mean “shelter in place”. So I decided to make some Taiwanese Braised Pork Belly rice with my instant pot. I’ve tried this few years ago from this youtube channel called Angel Wong’s Kitchen. It was pretty great! So I decided to try my own version of this …
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Youtube is a wonderful platform, you discover things that you never thought you would. So this weekend, I accidentally discovered a “new” sound called City Pop from the following youtube video. The first song on this video was pretty amazing, it’s called “Plastic Love”. It sounds very retro-modern I thought and I like the feel …
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So today I saw first time the impact corona virus had on the travel industry. I travel a lot for work and today is the first time a in long while that I did not see a line at the TSA pre check security line. Which was great.!!! Inside the airport it is the same, …