I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them.

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.