Tony Tam

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  • Japanese does French pastries

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    This shop so far has the best French pastries and best coffee I’ve had in Paris and it’s created by a Japanese chef http://www.sadaharuaoki.com/ My favorite is all the pastries filled with mocha powder giving it a nice Japanese flavor to the classic French pastries.  The photo above is macha flavored madelline

  • single dad traveling with a kid in Paris

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    Eiffel Tower, Seine River, Louvre Museum: from  5 year old’s perpective, she can care less. Where’s the ice cream place, crepes? tired of walking, not the metro again, are we there yet? Kate is a pretty good traveler, but thinking from her perspective, I can understand. My days with her here in Paris is not…

  • People On Euro Train To Munich

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    I arrived at the train station on the Brompton (flickr photos) 10 minutes before the train took off.  The conductor looked at my bike and said I needed a reservation for it.  I folded it up in 30 secs and he said I didn’t need reservations. Today’s sleeper is a 4 bed and oddly they…

  • Mid-life Crisis Coming Early

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    So the common theory goes that there are basic humans needs like food and shelter and once you fulfill these needs then there is love, follow by spiritual needs and I don’t remember what other higher callings there are. For my parents’ generation they struggled for 40-50 years for basic survival and the focus is…

  • Dreaming Away On Eurorail

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    This weekend I was planning to head over to Barcelona for some bike riding and tapas, but of course the train was fill.  Then I asked the ticket person Madid? No. Lisbon?  No.  uhh, Denmark?  where? What’s the capital of Denmark?  Copenhagen?  OK, I’m going to Copenhagen then. So, my Brompton and I are on…

  • Finally, Good Coffee In Paris

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    I been having a hard time finding Italian quality coffee in Paris.  Most places that serve coffee in Paris serve very mediocure cafe creme and cappucino.  While in Paris, I’ve been listening to the http://coffeegeek.com/ podcast and making myself long for a good cup of capuccino. Until one day I stumbled on urbietorbi le bar…

  • Meeting new friends in Paris

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    I’ve been eating really late (like 11:30pm) here and I sometimes like to just step outside and pick up some take out from this Chinese place right downstairs. A few days ago, the owner of the place was speaking Madarin then I also starting speaking to them in Mandarin.  The husband and wife both came…

  • Travel with StyleCity guides to see the chic and modern

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    I love the cosmopolitain cities like Paris, SF, NY, Tokyo, HK, Taiwan and whenever I can, I buy this series of books call the StyleCity guides.  These books recommend places to live, eat and shop but with a focus on style and chic. Today I used the guide StyleCity Paris First Pierre Hermé, apparently, he…

  • Running down the Parisian kids

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    I saw this really neat parc in Paris and these kids were just runing around in circles while I myself was running the Paris Metro! Neato so I decided to run them down 3 times over and and over. Run The Paris Metro: Chasing kids [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQ8humxpro]

  • Run The Paris Metro #6: 8.01 miles: 10 stations: 251 to go

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    Today’s run was a bit shorter, 10 down, 8.01 miles and only 251 stations to go  No tagzania map today, maybe I’ll update later.  Check out the pics of the Paris city life. Run #5: 13.87 miles june 13th Run #4: 12.58 miles june 10th Run #3: 12.85 miles june 8th Run #2: 10.56 miles…