Open Wine is one of those Phnom Penh institutions that you take comfort in knowing are always there for you. Yet, in a city where new dining establishments -with promises of the extraordinary- open...
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Che Culo
#6B Street 302 BKK1.
Firstly, there is that name, let us attempt to deal with it straight off the bat.
The term Che Culo comes from Northern Italy, Che, (pronounced...
If there is one thing that expats in developing countries moan about more than just about anything else, it’s the absence of a good steak. Then of course there is also the absence of...
An Bang Beach, Hoi An, Vietnam
As I sit on the grass perched over the beach, staring out to sea, sated and listening to the vibes of the house blending in with the gentle roll...
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu
After queuing out on the sidewalk for an age, patiently day-dreaming about the magic going on inside, you enter a...
"In a city one thousand years old, everyone is a visitor."
I have been ‘dropping’ in to Hanoi for over a dozen years, for the past 9 months I have found myself a resident.
Hanoi has...
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Song Teng estimates that he cooked under eighteen French chefs during his formative years at the Cambodiana Hotel. Some stayed the full one year term, many left a lot sooner, Cambodia in the 1990's...
At night his family would dig a hole in the ground, then they would all climb in and attempt to go to sleep -essential bedding arrangements to avoid stray bullets in the night; “When...
