“I used to get called ‘dark’ or ‘dirty’ and it would bother me a lot. It made me shut myself inside the house, away from people. You see, my father’s Japanese but my mother is Malaysian, so I look this way. Growing up, sometimes random people would say, ‘She’s a foreigner!’ even though I canContinue reading
“I’m trying to qualify for the Olympics. If not 2020 then the next one. I’ve been racing for 6+ years now. I got into cycling because when my younger brother broke his femur (thigh bone) while we were playing soccer, I was a bike mechanic and the doctor suggested I help him out. He wasContinue reading
“Japan is becoming more and more international, and communicating in English is a very big topic right now with the Olympics coming. Sometimes I work with Japanese executives before they go overseas to do a presentation and we’d work on the nonverbal aspects of how to portray a message. As an image consultant, I showContinue reading On the World Stage
Nobody knows ramen the way Abram does: he visits 200 new ramen shops a year, posts reviews on Instagram (where he has amassed over 2,000 followers), and has even opened his own ramen restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he grew up. To top it all off, he also launched a city guideContinue reading Ramen Beast
