Through some complicated game of telephone when I was 13, my mother got word of a Vietnamese herbalist in San Francisco. It was 2002, and after months of spraying that awful Rogaine formula on my head with no results, my parents were ready to try something new. Vinh Khang Herbs & Ginsengs was located in New Chinatown in the Richmond District. During all...

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I have a postcard board in my room that's made with pink elastic and a map of Paris. You can barely see the surface anymore because of all of the postcards and photos and tickets stubs and notable two-dimensional items layered on top, and it's too heavy to hang on the wall because it would surely just come crashing down with all of...

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I like coffee shops, comfortable shoes, and this borderline autumn weather we're getting in New York right now. A life goal of mine is to hug a panda. It'll forever be on my bucket list, won't it? The last thing you would ever expect me to like (even though I secretly do) is High School Musical. No, really. It was so ridiculous, I couldn't...

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