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 ‘Vietnam’
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 [...]
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 [...]
