Sep 26
There are many in Thailand who believe that home-cooked Thai food is becoming a thing of the past. Pre-packaged curry pastes and even entire Thai dishes, traditionally a staple of a home cooked meal, now sit on supermarket shelves, ready for a Thai version of a TV dinner. Even street food is succumbing to short …
Sep 25
When Lara first suggested the idea of a side trip to Saigon from Bangkok, my thoughts immediately turned to food, to Vietnamese food. When I first moved to Sydney many years ago, all I knew about Asian food was that there was Chinese (usually Cantonese) and Thai food (the generic stir fry). But in Balmain …
Sep 19
Monday Memories is a new series of posts where we publish one of the photos that we like to call a ‘memory shot’. It’s not necessarily the best photo in terms of technique of an experience on the road, but it’s the most emotive photo for us. We love eating street food on the footpaths …
Sep 18
We’ve long loved Vietnamese cuisine, having been spoilt with authentic Vietnamese food when we used to live in Sydney, home to a large Vietnamese-Australian population. Eating in Saigon (AKA Ho Chi Minh City) did not disappoint. In fact it was an absolute delight. These were the restaurants where we had some of our most enjoyable …
Sep 08
Some call Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City if you like, the city of ten million motorbikes. We’re not entirely sure there are ten million motorcycles – estimates vary from 2.5 to five to ten and more – so let’s just settle on millions. Either way, for a small city, that’s a lot of wheels. …
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