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After we arrived in Saigon and had knocked around for a day or two we started to look for something with a bit of an edge to it, a way to see something of this large, busy and sprawling city. … Continue reading
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She’s Japanese, not that you can tell from looking at her, she’s also small, and, dare we say, cute, she hasn’t been around much, and but for a few little tell tale signs of approaching middle age, pretty hard to … Continue reading
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A week or so has gone by in the small southern town of Au Nang and it’s seems about right to move on, we’ve boarded a mini bus and headed north-east, across the Thai mainland and on towards the heady … Continue reading
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It’s a quiet day in Phuket, we don’t have anything planned and the beach is too choppy for a swim, so, instead, we decided to try our hand at another cooking school. We did one in Sarawak a few weeks … Continue reading
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Nasi Lemak, Mee Goreng, Assam Laksa, otak-otak, just whisper their names and try not to conjure up visions of South East Asia, hot days, hot nights, thunder storms, humidity, incense, spices and mysterious cafes full of mysterious people. We’ve been … Continue reading
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Standing guard over the residents of George Town for the past 127 years is the grand old dame of Penang, the Eastern and Orient Hotel, fondly referred to as the E & O. A self described 5 star hotel, it’s … Continue reading
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We’ve arrived in Kuala Lumpur, KL to the locals, the capital of Malaysia and a bustling, busy little place of around 1.6 million souls. Combine a bit of Singapore with a bit of Bangkok, throw in a lot of it’s … Continue reading
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While in Langkawi we decided on the spur of the moment to head to the well know resort of Bon Ton for lunch. I say resort, for want of a better description, as resort conjures up all kinds of images … Continue reading
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We have just a couple of days left to savor the sights and sounds of Kuching before we head back to Penang. And as we are staying near the local food market we decide to take a stroll through, do … Continue reading
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It’s one of our last days in Kuching and we decide to book into the Bumbu cooking school, with the promise of the chance to learn to cook real home style Sarawak food, it should be a great day. Our … Continue reading
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We’ve been picking up some of our daily supplies from the local supermarket, it’s handy and easy, but not something we’d recommend, one supermarket is pretty much like any other supermarket no matter where you are, we could have stayed … Continue reading
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One of the hopes that we had for Penang was to find a local “hole in the wall” restaurant nearby, a local, a place to drop into three or four times a week, a place where you know the staff, … Continue reading
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Is it Bangkok’s best duck noodle soup? we’ll, maybe not, who could tell, we haven’t had that many to compare, but this little bowl of noodle slurping goodness must sit right up with the best of them. Tucked away down … Continue reading
