Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that’s stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and – most important – doesn’t make your shoulder sag even before you’ve loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I think Bhutanese food – long dissed by every food writer out there – has gotten a bum rap. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn’t work as well as it does. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I live in Soho in lower New York; there’s tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
