Angkor or Bagan?
Some 900 years ago, King Suryavarman II created the Khmer empire’s largest stone tribute to the Hindu religion – modern Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. His predecessors promptly converted to Buddhism and […]
Category Archives: Destinations
Culture Lesson: The Karenni Soup Bowl
Most meals taken in a Karenni-Burmese household center around the soup bowl. Usually a boiling broth with an assortment of vegetables – including the stem, leaf and vine – this […]
Visiting the Markets of Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, the daily market is like a garage sale + grocery store + auction house on too many cups of coffee. From unusual meat items to untasted fruits, […]
Education Shock: Explaining Magic
Education shock: noun- a derivative of culture shock; a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual teacher or student who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or […]
Flavor of the Week: MSG
Monosodium glutamate. In the Western world, it’s considered worse than a cockroach infestation at a Chinese restaurant. MSG is an allergy; a dirty habit; the cancer of good cuisine. But, […]
Read Before Entering: Burma
This month’s reading review, June 2012: “10 Taboo Tourist Destinations (And How to Visit Them)” Also on the subject of places you “should not visit”, but will regret if you […]
Bucket List # 37: Live Through A Rainy Season
27°C | °F พฤ. ศ. ส. อา. ฝนตก ลม: เหนือ ที่ 3 กม./ชม. ความชื้น: 79% 33° 31° 32° 31° The monthly forecast for Nai Soi, Northern Thailand… Meteorologists usually […]
Too Mutch For Words 