Howard Chua-Eoan
Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion’s international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine.
Bombing Iran’s Great Mosque could cost the world
The US knows what can happen when its monuments are destroyed. Who can foretell the consequences if Isfahan’s mosque suffers irreparable harm?
The steak economy is more than just high prices
Markets – like armies – march on their stomachs
A brief 700-year history of overtourism
Foreign tourists like to complain there are too many of themselves, but the locals do too – and have horror stories to tell
So you’ve taken over your family restaurant
Mom-and-pop operations are delicate things, and scaling up doesn’t guarantee success
Tariffs are eating all the fun out of sushi
The toll they could take on New York City’s most expensive restaurants will be a bellwether for the rest of us
A fitness tracker rescued me from resolution failure
Desperate to keep a new year’s commitment planned over 12 months, the writer reluctantly turns to a wearable machine
The high highs and low lows of haute cuisine
The finalists at this year’s Bocuse d’Or produced painstaking masterpieces. But sometimes, don’t you just want a slice of pizza?
The financial centre trifecta I almost won
First, the writer took Manhattan, then London. But a bug got in the way of Tokyo
Calculating the real value of the art you own
Sometimes, one’s possessions brush up against greatness, if not great valuations
What exactly were we cheering for at the Olympics?
It’s great to root for Biles, Marchand and Lyles, but let’s be clear about what we’re celebrating
