Many years ago, as a teenager, I would stay up to watch Jack Paar’s late-night show on my salvaged Admiral TV set,
The Taipei Tokyo Café
In 1979 Molly and I moved across the country for the second time, from San Diego California to Arlington Virginia, as I took a job at the University of Maryland. An immediate benefit was international travel, when I was assigned to teach classes on a U.S. Army base in Japan. We stayed more than two months in Japan and in addition to exploring Tokyo we enjoyed a wide variety of Japanese restaurants. We also had an incredible tour of China, where we were among the first western visitors in decades. Besides hitting the big cities — Shanghai and Beijing —
