I’ve known for many, many years — probably since I was a child — that rice is a staple of the Asian diet. It was just like that, a simple, bare and almost uninteresting fact, rice is a staple of the Asian diet. However, since jft and I have immersed ourselves in Asian culture and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Southeast Asia’
a photo update
OK, so I was thinking I’d be making some more posts from Bangkok about our adventures through Southeast Asia. I’ve got a post started that’s a follow-up to “this is normal,” and I’ve even got notes for a post about Mexican food in Chicago (some travelers we met are headed that way, so that got [...]
back in bangkok
So we’re back in Bangkok, Thailand, after nearly 3 months around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been on the road four months already. We’ll be here for a bit so we can finally check out the big city, as well as a few surrounding places like the Bridge Over [...]
WHY?
I managed to stub my toe yesterday, slamming with quite good precision by green-Croc-clad left foot into a rock I missed seeing. jft and I were touring the My Son ancient brick tower remanants of the Chams, an ethnic group who once held sway over many parts of southeast Asia, even ransacking Angkor and the [...]
this is normal
While traversing South East Asia we have found ourselves amongst people who live their lives rather differently than we’re used to. And some things that are regular things for us while traveling – often things that don’t seem noteworthy – we realize are different than life back home.
For example, while living in Chicago we rarely [...]
a different road
I may not be keeping up with the news while traveling, but one subscription I was sure to keep was the Chicago Magazine’s weekly “Dish” newsletter. I may not need an email digest about shootings in West Virginia and bombings in Iraq, but don’t think I’m going to ignore the Chicago food scene.
Anyhow, the [...]
same same, but different
Two tales for your reading pleasure.
Tale #1: Muang Swa By Night
The cool towel, rather soothing on this warm evening, is placed on my neck. The older man moves around the towel. Then I feel his firm grip, on the back of my neck, and the massage begins. His hands knowingly and strongly begin to work [...]
eating our way through asia
So as you may be able to imagine (or tell from our photos), one of the things rIAm and I are focused on during our travels is food. And perhaps we’ve talked about food a bit on this site; we’ve definitely shown photos and made commentary on flickr. But when we had a question come [...]
