Saigon: streets are a natural extension to everybody's home

Eating Vietnam, Part 1: Introduction

February 25, 2016

This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on eating our way through Vietnam. We spent three weeks in Vietnam, starting with Hanoi in the north, making our way down over 1,000 miles to Ho Chi Minh City in the south.

People lining up for Hainanese chicken rice at Tian Tian in Maxwell Road Hawker Centre, Singapore

Street Food in Singapore, Off the Streets

February 22, 2016

I’ll admit that I was at first skeptical of hawker centers, wondering what the government’s underlying agenda was in a country that seems to have everything in perfect order...

Transiting through Tokyo Narita, one of many transportation hubs we traveled through — Transiting through Tokyo Narita, one of many transportation hubs we traveled through

Packing for a 7-Week Journey in Asia

February 17, 2016

Until our recent 7-week trip through India and southeast Asia neither of us had ever traveled for longer than a two-week period at a time, making for all sorts of new experiences, not just during our travels, but also while preparing. How to pack for 7 weeks?

Dosas being prepped on the streets of Thane, Bombay — *Dosas* being prepped on the streets of Thane, Bombay

Breakfast in India

January 31, 2016

The vocabulary, once foreign to me, is now becoming more comfortable, as these types of words often do. They conjure up feelings of hunger, satisfaction and familiarity. They represent family, community and tradition. ..

They are the foods that Prem grew up eating for breakfast and I now crave and find comfort in, alongside him, with each trip to his home country, India.

Chai

January 12, 2016

In a dense, populous city like Bombay you don’t need to go very far for good chai. My favorite chai in the world is the chai I can find in my neighborhood, and it happens to be pretty damned good...