As he returned to the China Club for a last cup of ricewine, Chang and his friends seemed like genteel revolutionaries ready to take on the modern world.
The traveller who savours traditional Japanese cuisine and dismisses fusion cuisine as inauthentic, who refers to ricewine as Nihonshu and is seduced by the entire poetic process.
Some 13 years after it appeared in stores, his design for a canned rice-wine cocktail still looks fresh -- unadorned aluminum save for the brand name in different colors to indicate flavor.