Tag: Hotels & Resorts
Penh Folds – The Four Wines of Destiny
Penh Folds - The Four Wines of Destiny
“The Ox is slow but the Earth is Patient”
Confucius
The recent Spring Festival and Lunar New...
The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel
The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness”
Chinese Proverb
The Tower
The Vattanac Capital Tower rises over Phnom...
Independence Day
From Lost World to Last Hope
‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is...
Bistronomy
Les Années Folles
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money,...
Truffle Hog
"Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas"
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), preface to ‘The Physiology of Taste’ (1825)
Truffles, those incredible...
French Cheese Diplomacy
It was fifty years ago last month that French President, General and Statesman Charles de Gaulle made his famous speech at Olympic Stadium in...
Spaghetti Eastern
It has long been accepted history that Venetian trader Marco Polo brought noodles from the Silk Route to Italy and thus introduced Italians to...
The Midnight Special
The ‘Misnomer of the Year’ a friend called it, indeed brunch is supposed to be about sleeping in very late on the weekend and...
This Negroni Life
The bitter and twisted Negroni has somehow become the trendiest cocktail of the decade, with Conde Nast Traveler magazine suggesting it is to New...
Lost World
Sometimes, there are certain moments, certain meals that can be so serendipitously excellent you become convinced that unknown forces have conspired to bring you...