It Was A Typical Vietnamese Barber Shop. I Took No Mind Of The Clean Ear Part The Haircut Came Our Great! I was starting to look a bit shaggy while I was visiting Hoi An, Vietnam so I struck out in search of a place to get a shave and haircut. A few blocks away from...
Shanghai Steamed Buns Every great city has its iconic foods – Memphis has barbeque, Baltimore has crab cakes and Miami has stone crabs. Way further east Shanghai, China is known for Xiaolongbao or simply Shanghai Steamed Buns. What all these foods have in common...
Hiking on the Great Wall of China It has always been a goal of mine to hike on the Great Wall of China. I expected to be impressed but, upon actually seeing it my mind boggled. It was truly humbling to see this icon of human ingenuity and ambition stretched out before...
Pad Thai Wrapped in an Egg Parcel from Thip Samani in Bangkok Pad Thai is probably the most famous dish in Thai cuisine, but where is the best place to get it in Bangkok? I don’t normally associate Pad Thai with street food but, there is a place in...
Bathing Elephants in Thailand There are just some things in life you don’t see every day. A few days ago I took a little trip around Chiang Mai, Thailand on the roads locals call the “Samoeng Loop”. It is a beautiful ride along steep winding roads up into the nearby...
Sunrise at Angkor Wat You can’t think of Cambodia without thinking of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Angkor Wat including the Angkor complex. The very name stirs up romantic images of 19th-century explorers hacking their way through thick jungle and stumbling upon an...
Every year giant puppets take over the streets of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Huge glowing figures up to 100 feet long, prowl the streets proudly held aloft by the local children that helped create them. The Giant Puppet Project is a community arts project, which provides an...
Cambodian Street Food Chicken Offal Satay There is nothing like a good satay; delicious meats placed on bamboo skewers and grilled over charcoal. Until recently my satay experience had been limited to small pieces of beef, chicken or maybe lamb deliciously seasoned...
