The wishing well inside the Snow White Grotto at Disneyland. Albert Lam via Flickr CC 2.0 While visiting Disneyland, it can be tempting to do whatever you can to get the perfect shot, but it should never be at the expense of your electronic devices or others. Tory Hatcher and Jessi Wills, influencers best known … Read more
A glass dome held by a robotic arm ascended from our table, releasing a whoosh of steam that seeped into my pores. But I wasn’t at a spa: Before me appeared a tantalizing plate of freshly cooked shrimp. Xian Steam Pot & Yakiniku, a new restaurant that opened in Milpitas in June, specializes in both Chinese … Read more
If you had to sign a waiver before a meal, would you? Raina Huang does it for sport. The Los Angeles-based competitive eater visited Denver in November and shared videos of her completing various food challenges with her 435,000 Instagram, 497,000 YouTube and 3.6 million TikTok followers. Food challenges bring competitors like Huang from around … Read more
Kuaishou Technology, China’s second-largest short video platform after ByteDance’s Douyin, has launched an “online festival” to encourage home sales amid a deep property market slump in the country. The one-month campaign, called “national home-buying season”, started on Wednesday and will run through January 5, during which the platform will promote star agents, bargain prices and … Read more
Gaku Homma requires one thing from customers when they walk through Domo Japanese Country Restaurant’s recently reopened doors: patience. At 73 years old, the chef is still constantly on his feet, cooking, cleaning dishes and greeting guests. “I am happy to be back here, but I am busy,” he said. Homma reopened Domo, at 1365 … Read more
