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COLUMNIST: Polo (Ronault L.S. Catalani) | Dmae Roberts |
My Turn
by Wayne Chan
2026
2025
My way to rice to the occasion |
When Surrealism becomes reality |
Would you like that with a side of grits or an egg roll? |
From movie star to senior citizen discounts in one fell swoop |
In a state of peace, tranquility & "La Orana" |
An earth-shattering revelation |
When enough isn’t enough enough |
Two doctors and two lawyers walk into a bar … |
When fighting over a check becomes a contact sport |
We are so much more than hamburgers and pot roast |
The true meaning of "It’s All Greek to Me"
2024
Setting a new world’s record for grocery lifting |
The secretive world of a steamed bun dealer |
Not the ideal way of feeling young again |
An idea I thought had come and gone, is apparently back |
To burn or not to burn, that is the question |
True confessions of a Chinese restaurant snob |
How the simplest of treats can overcome the mightiest of oceans |
Weighing the benefits of a smelly solution |
If it’s not one thing, it’s always another |
A bouncing ball and a bruised ego |
On the fourth day, there was Chinese food |
Getting from point A to point B with perks |
When the Asian gourmand is our golden retriever |
To be a Dragon, or not a Dragon — that is the question |
The promise and reality of our Asian vegetable garden |
Beware of the unconstitutional yoga pose
2023
Panda-monium or Panda-ocalypse, we’re at the brink |
The differences between a Chinese banquet & a high-end western meal |
And on the fifth day, there was DWS |
What to do when faced with fondue |
A tall tale told at Yappy Hour |
An amazing trip with a number of money-saving caveats |
The gift with the greatest reward |
The dreaded "follow-up question" |
To pho or not to pho, that is the question |
Everything Everywhere All at Once and into the future |
A word about that Chinese balloon |
First of all, I don’t even like carrots |
2022
The United Federation of Asian Perfect-ness |
The tale of travelling tails |
Summer heat brings burning feet |
Grandpa – The matchmaker in heaven |
A time to laugh, but no, not today |
They should have called it the "Powernap Express" |
A winter wonderland without the winter |
I would hate to be a hamster in Hong Kong right now
2021
Li Ziqi — Martha Stewart on steroids |
But why would an ostrich cough up a fur ball? |
To jab or not to jab. That is the question |
The content of their character indeed
2020
The hottest restaurant in town — but not in a good way |
A clear enough mind to know I was insulted
2019
A childhood memory I’d rather forget |
Now that’s what you call being an entrepreneur |
Dramatic reading of an uneventful life |
Give me liberty or give me beef satay!
2018
My grown-up, confounding, exasperating, exhilarating blessing of a son |
Fusion and fried rice — a match made in heaven |
The master chef and the case of the missing pasta |
File this story under too much of a good thing |
The perfect, much too perfect, Christmas tree |
2017
If someone could come up with a matzo-ball dim-sum restaurant, we’d all be set |
There is such a thing as MSG withdrawal |
Roses are red … and they’d better be |
Not enough time for meditation
2016
A thwacking is worth a thousand words |
Ready for the sitting-still-in-a-lounge-chair challenge |
Paul Trudeau never had it so good |
The holiday for those who love time travel