More than a sleeping spot for travellers, ryokans are rooted in the philosophy of Zen – a space where peace...
Culture
Singapore and Asia’s cultural life moves fast. Between gallery openings, sold-out concerts, and theatre runs that vanish before you’ve heard about them, knowing where to look matters. City Nomads covers the art exhibitions, cinema releases, live music, and theatre that shape how this city thinks, feels, and gathers.
Even in Hong Kong‘s extravagant mall scene, K11 MUSEA made a splash when it opened its glitzy doors last year...
Japanese cuisine is such a rage among the Chinese nowadays that specialty restaurants are mushrooming to ride on the demand....
Remember the houses we happily drew as children? A triangular roof on a boxy base, framed by a grassy lawn...
By and large, the architecture that dominates any city skyline is by and for an elite. The sleek skyscrapers humming...
For most of us, living in a Peranakan shophouse is nothing more than a far-off fantasy – these slices of...
The modernist poet Wallace Stevens once said that ‘the poet is the priest of the invisible’, and one church-turned-poetry bookstore...
For most Southeast Asians, rattan is nostalgic but outmoded – the kind of weave we might remember from our grandparents’...
Picture a house in your mind and it’s almost certain to be rectilinear – squarish walls, boxy roof, compact lines...
Looking out to the Yangon riverfront, the street housing the regal Strand Hotel is full of historical and aesthetic value....