![A clock with fruits where numbers are normally seen.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8716-470x140.png)
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…
![Buses painted blue, white, and yellow await commuters at the Memorial Bridge ferry terminal in Bangkok.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8730-470x140.png)
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,…
![A Kettle of Makgeoli](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_1436-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Trucks Await Deliveries From Alley-Bound Distributors in Seoul, South Korea](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_5727-e1436750234961-470x140.jpg)
The streets of Korea are wide and well paved. Bigger stores and familiar companies line those streets. If you’re seeking a pizza chain, or an…
![An Extinguisher Protecting Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_6390-470x140.jpg)
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,…
![Blue Rice, Nasi Kerabu](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_07411-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Malaysian Iced Coffee](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_5506-470x140.jpg)
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…
![A Pale Nose, Lips, and A Straw](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_4838-470x140.jpg)
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…
![The Penang Hill Train Near the Top End of Its Ru n](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Funicular_at_Penang_Hill_Crop-470x140.jpeg)
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…
![Lok-lok Skewers on Penang, Malaysia](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lok_lok_closeup-470x140.jpg)
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…
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