Be Cos - Reflections on the Lake
The expansive Inle Lake in southern Shan State, Myanmar, is calm, tranquil and alluring. Its beauty is seductive, but like the siren’s song it carries questions—questions not...
Shomurice
At Red Mountain Estate Winery in central Myanmar, renowned ‘Master Chef’ judge U Ye is redefining one of Japan’s most iconic and theatrical dishes, ‘omurice,’ giving it a unique and distinctly local quality.
“In this...
Goodbye La Maison
“We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and somehow never can.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days
La Maison Birmane
For ten to fourteen days of almost every month for...
Cẩm An Dreaming
Cẩm An is a small coastal commune of the Quảng Nam Province in central Vietnam. It sits about four kilometres northeast of the UNESCO World Heritage town Hội An.
I have always...
From Perold’s Garden to Papua New Guinea
An Afrikaner in Papua New Guinea
I was delighted to find myself in Papua New Guinea on the weekend, one of the most disparate places on...
And your winner is....Chanthy Yen
The Cambodian Vying to be Crowned "TOP CHEF" Canada
Chef Chanthy Yen is celebrated for his innovative approach to modern Cambodian cuisine. With a nearly two-decades-long career, Chef Yen has established...
Viña Vik-torious
I recently had the pleasure of tasting wines of Vina VIK at the Ming Room in Phnom Penh, with the vivacious and perspicacious Caroline Fanet, Export Manager for Europe & SE Asia....
The Smoking Duck
There is smoked duck and then there is what Pepe Alfonso Raimundo does with duck.
There is smoke obviously, I imagine there must be some chanting and invocations, possibly some dancing around flames...
