“Many people go fishing all of their lives not knowing that it is not the fish they are after.” The wit by Henry Thoreau crosses my mind as my eyes stop at this 19-years old tennis racquet on the garage wall. After about two decades of falling in love with the game, I have awakened to […]

Life often runs in cycles where everything old can become new again. This has been very apparent during a weeklong expedition with my wife to Cheung Chau, an island located six miles southwest of Hong Kong or 30 minutes by ferry. Cheung Chau is only about one square mile in area and has fewer than […]

If authentic indigenous food is an introductory course leading people to a new culture, then their drinking customs should be a far advanced one. History Thanks to the Himalayas, the drinking culture exchanges between China and the West, among all others, have been blocked for thousands of years. Even today one can’t find Chinese baijiu […]

A Food Tour in the Middle East, and Beyond By Cheng Wang, Feb. 2016 For millions of us who blaze a trail halfway around the world looking for a new life in America, many often reminisce about the food we grew up eating in our native soil. We are far from our roots, and there […]

 Meeting the Author, Cheng Wang In the early-1980s, two years after completing college in China, Cheng Wang, a boyish-looking, unworldly young man, thought his name was Columbus and landed on this side of the Pacific with borrowed money. Starting out as a Ph.D. Econ graduate student, Cheng delivered Chinese food to pay part of his […]

Back in the late 60’s, when I was 12 years old, my parents went through re-education during the Cultural Revolution. Our family moved from our home in Shenyang, an industrial city in the northeastern China, to DaQing Commune 40 miles north of the city. We lived there for three years, during which I had a […]