This is how lunch is served in Myanmar: fast, tasty and extremely bountiful. There’s no need for a menu, because you’ll be served all the dishes the house can muster. First, there’s rice – as much rice as you can eat. Then there are at least three curries: pork, mutton, and chicken, all milder than [...]
Street food! Have we proclaimed our love for South-East Asian street cuisine enough on this site? I think not! The latest installment of our ongoing round-the-world street food sampling circus took us to Yangon’s Chinatown, where smoking barbeque stalls serve up scrumptious skewers with any and every protein and carb you can think of (and [...]
It doesn’t happen often and we almost always suffer afterward, but sometimes it seems like a great idea to get rip roaring drunk with fellow travelers. Last night was one of those nights. We had just finished our walking tour of Yangon and would have used the late afternoon for writing blog posts. We hadn’t [...]
“We don’t come here for the ruins” is an oft-quoted adage of the seedier Thailand tourists. Well, we don’t come here so much for the ruins either, picturesque as they are. We came here for the food, because for us Ayutthaya is an overlooked Thai culinary gem. Between the two of us, [...]
If I had one suggestion to give someone going to Bangkok it would be this: don’t eat in their restaurants. Sure, they have great selection there. Their prices are also enticing but believe me, the real eating experience is had right on the street. You will pay a fraction of the price and it’s the [...]
Feeling that we have stomachs of steel, we’ve been making our way around the street vendors in Bangkok – trying a little bit of everything. That is, except for this thing. Dining is mostly a visual experience and this 10” pile of Evil, covered in stringy bits of Nasty just didn’t pass the test. Does [...]
Figuring we’d gained a tolerance for spicy food in India and Nepal, we ordered a spicy pork dish yesterday. Three bites into the dish and my face looked like this. Not only are the spice levels different, we’re eating in1000% humidity. My dermatologist once called me a “nose sweater.” It’s random, but true. I sweat [...]
While this visit to Bangkok isn’t the first for either of us (a rough count tells me this is my 8th), the first impressions of the city vary wildly from time to time. What makes this time different is the fact that we just spent nine months on the road, four of which were in [...]
Our awesome landlord Arjun had us over for the feast last night, instructing us on how to cook everything he prepared for us. In total there were ten dishes. We’re talking a whirlwind tour of Nepali food – and every dish was better than the last. Piro Aloo was served as a cold snack, [...]
In celebration of our time together our landlord (pictured) agreed to cook us up some amazing Nepali food before we leave. Not only does he run a tight ship with his rental units, but he also runs a guesthouse, helps to relocate refugees to the US, and was a professional chef for twelve years. The [...]
Our time here in Nepal has been almost completely vegetarian. It’s not that we don’t trust the meat around these parts – we’re just a bit intimidated by the meat stores. Think giant slabs of meat dripping of fresh blood, piles of decapitated chickens and lumps of liver on the floor. Still, we do [...]
We were taught how to make the perfect Indian Chapati (a puffed up flat bread) in our McLeod Ganj cooking class. The dough is cooked for a while on a flat surface, then put directly on the flame, which makes the bread puff up like a balloon. The teacher made it look easy, as shown [...]
One of the joys of traveling is sampling various street foods. Nepal, however, doesn’t offer much in that way – people either eat in their homes, or in cozy (heated) restaurants. This gentleman is the obvious exception: he has realized that there’s always room for corn. He charges us 20 US cents per cob. [...]
One of the many things I miss about Sweden during Christmas (family, food, friends come to mind) is the Glögg – Sweden’s famous mulled wine. Normally, there is a wide array of options available at the liquor store. However, most of the spices that go into Glögg grow here, so I set out to [...]
This is a Mars bar we bought in the quaint town of Ban Tanthi (one of two Ban Tanthi’s, confusingly located three kilometers apart from each other). As you can tell from the image, it doesn’t look exactly fresh. Ban Tanthi is far away from any road, so everything has to be carried in by [...]
You know the saying, “to fly by the seat of your pants?” Well, that's been our philosophy for most of our adult lives – before and after meeting, falling in love and marrying. We're now taking that idea on an extended round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
