My expectations of Nepali food were not very high before we went there. I was picturing an endless stream of nearly identical dal bhat meals (rice with lentils and curry vegetables). It also occurred to me that the mountainous landscape…
The new heavyweight champion of the samosa world!
Ok. So maybe it’s not a fair fight since I haven’t tried all of the samosas on earth but out of the ones I have tried, these are the best. Maybe southern India will have some contenders. We’ll see. A…
Sri Lankan Goodies
While variety isn’t exactly a strong point of Sri Lankan cuisine, some of the staples are pretty damn good. Of course there are bland versions and excellent versions of every dish depending on the amount of love put into it.…
Sweet Thai coconut heaven
Sweets are not generally my thing. I could possibly get carried away with some decent chocolate or a cheesecake but mostly I crave salty savory flavors. Fern, on the other hand, definitely has a sweet tooth. As we travelled through…
Bak Kut Teh in George Town
Every place has a history. There are rough times when people leave their homes in large numbers and all of those people end up somewhere trying to build a better life. For as long as humans have existed there has…
Kuala Lumpur
As our 30 day visa-free period in Thailand drew to an end, Fern and I needed to figure out how to buy ourselves more time. We still wanted to check out the southern coastal towns in hopes of finding some…
A new kind of comfort food
While Fern was in the hospital in Pattaya (Thailand) I was usually at the hospital, at our hotel, or in transit between the two places, and it was during this transit time that I took care of my most fundamental…