Jocelyn Chen

By luck, I landed in Singapore just before the typhoon arrived, and checked into the legendary Raffles Hotel.

My first visit to Txispa began with a drive deep into a quiet valley in the Basque Country. Surrounded by mountains, it felt as though I had entered another world.

On my first visit to Vivant since it received its Michelin star, the dining room was full and alive with movement. It felt as though the restaurant had secured a place at the forefront of Shanghai’s rising French fine-dining scene. Vivant was busy yet composed, with none of the rigidity of a fixed performance. The front-of-house team was elegant and assured; the cooking was precise, the mood relaxed. We passed between two walls of wine, then an open, silver-toned kitchen, before sitting down beneath a retro arched ceiling.

For a food lover, describing Asador Etxebarri is extraordinarily difficult.Over the years, I have dined at countless restaurants, but only a handful make me look forward to my next visit the moment I leave. Hidden away in the Atxondo Valley of Spain’s Basque Country, Asador Etxebarri has always been one of them.

The moment I hear we're going back to Oriental House, the anticipation begins, usually a full week in advance.

For the first time, the Michelin Guide for Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang has been released as a combined edition.

From Taitung on Taiwan’s rugged east coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean, to Yuguang Island in Tainan in southern Taiwan, Nick Yang (Yang Po-Wei)’s restaurant has always been a destination in itself.
After the closure of Sinasera 24 and before the opening of YuDao at the end of last year, he remained relatively low-profile for a period of time.

Shanghai’s fine dining scene is highly developed and exacting. But if you focus only on fine dining, you’ll miss another deeply charming layer of the city’s food culture: Chinese bistros. For many travelers from outside China, this side of Shanghai dining barely exists on the radar.

With the Northern Italy Winter Olympics countdown underway and Milan Women’s Fashion Week just around the corner, many are planning a trip to Milan—but wondering where to find authentic local food.
Over the past years, we explored Milan through visiting time-honored local spots, buzzy neighborhood favorites, and of course, the one gelato spot unanimously hailed by Milanese chefs as the best in the city.

I hadn’t expected that my first visit to Pairedd in Chengdu would come only at the end of last year. The restaurant’s popularity has since become something of a phenomenon.

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