Diary of a Growing Boy
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Food, wine, and travel… with occasional rants about injustices and stupidity
Incredibly bad meal from a team that now holds 2 Michelin stars and ranked 29 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Shit 💩(literally!) ingredients and sloppy execution. How did 102 House 壹零貮小館 get so bad?
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My worst meal of 2025
Yes, I'm well aware that only 3 months of the year has passed... but I very much doubt that any meal I will have during the rest of 2025 wil...
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April 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Incredibly bad meal from a team that now holds 2 Michelin stars and ranked 29 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Shit 💩(literally!) ingredients and sloppy execution. How did 102 House 壹零貮小館 get so bad?
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Getting blocked by an award-winning journalist for questioning her call to boycott businesses like Costco, which reaffirmed their support of DEI and has been praised as one of the ‘good guys’ worthy of support. So this is how liberals want ‘Murica to be.
March 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Getting blocked by an award-winning journalist for questioning her call to boycott businesses like Costco, which reaffirmed their support of DEI and has been praised as one of the ‘good guys’ worthy of support. So this is how liberals want ‘Murica to be.
Revisiting one of my favorite restaurants in Hong Kong - which serves Ningbo cuisine and not Cantonese - for their latest dishes featuring Spring ingredients
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Scouting mission
I have the distinct misfortune of dining with B Bestie for the second in three nights, as I accepted an invitation to taste the new, seasona...
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March 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Revisiting one of my favorite restaurants in Hong Kong - which serves Ningbo cuisine and not Cantonese - for their latest dishes featuring Spring ingredients
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To the ‘journalists’ and talking heads whose content gets recommended to me:
If I see you post about ‘person A DESTROYS person B’ or ‘person A TORCHES person B’, your professionalism is at the level of Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino so there is absolutely NO reason to listen to anything you say
If I see you post about ‘person A DESTROYS person B’ or ‘person A TORCHES person B’, your professionalism is at the level of Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino so there is absolutely NO reason to listen to anything you say
January 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
To the ‘journalists’ and talking heads whose content gets recommended to me:
If I see you post about ‘person A DESTROYS person B’ or ‘person A TORCHES person B’, your professionalism is at the level of Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino so there is absolutely NO reason to listen to anything you say
If I see you post about ‘person A DESTROYS person B’ or ‘person A TORCHES person B’, your professionalism is at the level of Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino so there is absolutely NO reason to listen to anything you say
I thought that I had the last taste of my favorite sandwich in the world back in 2019, before the owner passed away. I was ecstatic when they suddenly announced their reopening. www.diarygrowingboy.com/2025/01/the-...
The 68-month wait
I had hoped, nay, dreamed of this happening for YEARS. The day finally came. It was 68 months ago that I last sat down at Yue Hing (裕興) an...
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January 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I thought that I had the last taste of my favorite sandwich in the world back in 2019, before the owner passed away. I was ecstatic when they suddenly announced their reopening. www.diarygrowingboy.com/2025/01/the-...
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8 years later, this really feel so much worse the second time around. I live halfway around the world from ‘Murica and really just want to unplug from the news cycle talking about Orange Cheeto and MAGA nonstop
January 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
8 years later, this really feel so much worse the second time around. I live halfway around the world from ‘Murica and really just want to unplug from the news cycle talking about Orange Cheeto and MAGA nonstop
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The 25 wines I enjoyed the most in 2024 out of all the good stuff I tasted. Price ranging from US$50 to over US$10k a bottle…
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The most delicious wines I tasted in 2024
I've been doing a annual "best of" list of dishes since 2016, and a few years ago someone asked whether I would also do one for the wines I ...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The 25 wines I enjoyed the most in 2024 out of all the good stuff I tasted. Price ranging from US$50 to over US$10k a bottle…
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I’m happy to see Space X getting some competition, but not so happy that it’s Blue Origin. Sigh
January 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’m happy to see Space X getting some competition, but not so happy that it’s Blue Origin. Sigh
These were the 34 dishes I found most delicious in 2024, out of the thousands I had eaten. #bestof2024
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The best dishes I had in 2024
2024 was a strange year for me. While the borders had been fully-open since late 2022, I went on a self-imposed travel ban for 6 months in t...
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January 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
These were the 34 dishes I found most delicious in 2024, out of the thousands I had eaten. #bestof2024
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AXIOS: “There have been more jobs gained under Biden's term than under the full terms of former Presidents Trump, Obama, or George W. Bush.”
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January 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
AXIOS: “There have been more jobs gained under Biden's term than under the full terms of former Presidents Trump, Obama, or George W. Bush.”
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It’s been 2 years since I last hosted a #winetasting for the #MNSC boys, and we had a full house at Andō this time. The wines I served all came from #yearoftheDragon
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Closing out the cycle
There hasn't been an official MNSC dinner in over 11 months. I had tried to close out our current cycle - which began in the middle of 2022 ...
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January 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It’s been 2 years since I last hosted a #winetasting for the #MNSC boys, and we had a full house at Andō this time. The wines I served all came from #yearoftheDragon
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13 years after welcoming me at his domaine, I had the pleasure of seeing Jean-Louis Chave again, this time at my favorite Caprice, the French restaurant with 3 #Michelinstars at Four Seasons Hong Kong. A fantastic menu designed to pair with Chave’s wines
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3-star Chave
This is a dinner I waited more than 10 months for. Not long after the epic dinner with Domaine Trimbach and Weingut Egon Müller , Hairy Le...
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January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
13 years after welcoming me at his domaine, I had the pleasure of seeing Jean-Louis Chave again, this time at my favorite Caprice, the French restaurant with 3 #Michelinstars at Four Seasons Hong Kong. A fantastic menu designed to pair with Chave’s wines
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It’s been more than a year and a half but I am back drinking some delicious Champagne with Saito-san at Sushi Saito #Tokyo
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Tokyo 2024 day 6: Champagne and sushi again
We're meeting up with Geruhage for dinner in Roppongi, so I thought Foursheets and I could get there a little early and take in the Christma...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It’s been more than a year and a half but I am back drinking some delicious Champagne with Saito-san at Sushi Saito #Tokyo
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An epic tasting of every single vintage of Isojiman Nakatori Adagio since its very first release in 2009 to 2024. 磯自慢大吟醸中取り35アダージオ
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Tokyo 2024 day 3: Isojiman, Mon Amour
The main reason for taking this trip to Tokyo was to see an old friend. My first visit to Tamanegiya (酒たまねぎや) came in the summer of 2010, a...
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January 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
An epic tasting of every single vintage of Isojiman Nakatori Adagio since its very first release in 2009 to 2024. 磯自慢大吟醸中取り35アダージオ
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