A delicious cocktail with knockout punch: Bacardi 8, lime, mint and peach bitters.

Legendary burger platter from White Spot.

Chinese hot sauce, made from chile peppers grown and dried in Ping’an Village, Longji Terraces, China.

Crunchy Chinese doughnut wrapped in soft rice noodles from a mall restaurant in Shenzhen, China

Thick-cut Yukon gold, sweet and purple potatoes on a last-gasp summer patio day.

A delicate teapot filled with dashi stock with wild Japanese parsley, matsutake mushrooms and conger eel from Kaiseki-Sakura.

Soft shell crab with spicy rock salt.

Roast beef sushi from Japanese deli- Delica rf-1 in San Francisco.