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#HongKong Hong Kong — where high-rise buildings are already part of the city’s way of “getting old,” and somehow feel backdated. And yet, high-rise buildings are exactly what the city is made of. Endless skylines of similar shapes and structures, repeating themselves over and over. It’s the colour and the light that give the city its unexpected touch and constant surprise factor. Food exists in all shapes and forms, weird and wonderful colours. The colours of sweets, fruits,

When you arrive in  Guanajuato , don’t expect your taxi to drop you off at the door of your guesthouse. It probably can’t. The city is a maze of  aquamarine, coral, and sun-yellow houses , stacked like watercolour dreams across the hills of the valley. Streets twist and turn into narrow alleys, tunnels, and staircases that seem to go both up and down at once. Getting lost isn’t just likely—it’s part of the fun. We stayed at  Casa de Pita , which feels less like a guesthouse a

Pandas, Ear Cleaning & Everyday Absurdity Even if you didn’t know it before, Chengdu will make sure you do:This is panda land. Pandas on signs, toys, cartoons, billboards.Cute, overwhelming—and somehow unavoidable.You   will  leave with a panda souvenir. Even if it’s a fridge magnet. And then there are the ear-cleaning shops.More common than cafés.Live . On screens. An obsession. Fascinating? Yes.Tempting? Absolutely not—for me. Instead, I chose a chair massage by the river,

The food in Chengdu is endlessly crazy. Not just flavour—experience. Brains, chillies, jelly, sticks with things you don’t want to identify. Hotpots bubbling with spice where you choose your own ingredients, boil them, dip them, drizzle them, mix them with pickles, fermented radish, rice, and whatever else catches your eye. You don’t always eat with confidence. But you eat with curiosity. Here, food isn’t just nourishment. It’s theatre. And sometimes, bravery.

Traditional, Sizzling and Funky CHENGDU Chengdu  is one of my favourite big cities in China—and maybe even in Asia. Twenty-five years ago, I visited the city when the Tea Garden was one of the biggest central public recreational spaces, at a time when Chengdu was developing rapidly. I returned with a slight fear of losing the old charm: the wooden buildings, sacred places, and slow rituals, replaced by roads, parking spaces, soulless high-rise buildings, and tasteless restaur