In the morning, we flip-flop to the pavement-level cook shop a half-dozen doors from our hotel. Cooking happens over open flame at the street while…
We are in well charted territory, and we are in uncharted territory: Thailand. It’s our third time in the Siamese bustle, so at one level,…
While traveling, we expect the unexpected, adventure. While traveling we try not to expect generosity, though we often experience it. It is rare, though, that…
Not even sleepwalkers, fresh off an overnight, change-planes-in-Ho-Chi-Minh-City flight from Malaysia, can miss the calling cards of Korea: The reserved quiet that pervades public space,…
The Malaysians have a rare skill for which they should be honored: They make blue. This is not about B.B. King, may he rest in…
You may be wondering, “What is there to debate about Malaysian coffee?” In a country as diverse as Malaysia, there are actually quite a number…
Here is one of the unexpected insights of world travel: peppers now make me sneeze. Formerly they did not, but now they do. It’s not…
Dare I say this? British colonials had an almost Germanic consistency: take over, build a military-industrial complex, then administer it from the cool comfort of…
Do you delight in toothpicked cheese cubes? Or prosciutto pinned to melon? The olives harpooned in your martini? If so, then may I recommend lok-lok? In this…
To dine on the island of Penang, we must cross Malaysia from east to west. As the house crow flies, that’s 150 miles. As the…
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