Pchum Ben in Cambodia is the country's most important Buddhist festival. Also known as Ancestors Festival or Hungry Ghosts Festival, Pchum Ben, which marks the end of Buddhist lent, takes place over 15 days towards the end of monsoon. Pchum Ben in Cambodia has started! The Pchum Ben festival begins on the fifteenth day of the tenth month ...
Our Dubai Stopover Guide shows you how to experience your Dubai layover like a local – and we give you a little language lesson at the same time to make your one day in Dubai even more enriching and more fun. Welcome to the first of a series of Layover Like a Local™ stopover guides ...
48 hours in Hoi An is just enough time to get a taste of Central Vietnam’s culinary capital and its distinctive cuisine, superb street food and cooking classes, and outstanding restaurants. But be warned: it will leave you wanting to return for more. Here’s how to spend 48 hours in Hoi An, Vietnam. If you’re ...
Cambodian food, Southeast Asia’s oldest cuisine, has been on trend since the start, cooking with fire, making use of edible flowers, foraging, fermenting, preserving, and pickling, long before they became fashionable. It's time for Cambodian cuisine to get more attention. I fell in love with Cambodian food on our first trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's ...
Vietnamese street food dishes you need to try in Vietnam and where to taste them – from bun cha in Hanoi to banh xeo in Saigon. We give you the lowdown on Vietnam’s must-try dishes and the regions and cities where you need to sample them. These Vietnamese street food dishes you need to try ...
Our Vietnam food tour has just finished – 22 days eating our way from Saigon to Hanoi via the Mekong Delta, Dalat, Hoi An, Hue, Sapa, and Halong Bay – and I’m back home in Cambodia, already planning another Vietnam culinary tour. Are you going to join us next time? A few mornings ago I ...
A Hoi An street food tour is essential when you visit the UNESCO World Heritage listed town in Central Vietnam. You just need to decide whether you’re going to embark on your own culinary adventure and do our self-guided Hoi An street food tour itinerary or sign up for a guided street food walk. The ...
A weekend in Bendigo makes for a great escape from Melbourne to take in the grandeur of the Gold Rush town and good food and wine. Try to time your trip to Victoria's third-largest city to coincide with the monthly Bendigo Farmers Market or a food tour or wine festival. I just spent a weekend in Bendigo ...
Bangkok street food stalls are not going anywhere for now so street food lovers around the world can breathe a deep sigh of relief, cancel those direct flights to Phuket and Chiang Mai, and start salivating once again. UPDATE: The situation appears to be changing all the time. We'll be posting another story on this ...
New Turkish Cuisine in Australia had been intriguing me for some time and then I spotted the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event called ‘Mehmet Gürs and The Young Turks at Lezzet – an Anatolian Discovery’. We signed up immediately. Sampling New Turkish Cuisine in Australia was high on my to-do list when planning our ...
The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list 2017 was announced on 5 April at a boozy event at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. It hasn’t taken us ten days to recover from the party that followed but we have spent a little time reflecting upon what the list means for culinary travellers – our readers. Every year ...
River Graze, which sprawls along the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River on Southbank Promenade, is a celebration of food and wine, from across the Australian state of Victoria. Launched on Friday night and running through to Sunday evening, it's one of 200 events on the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival calendar. We might have landed ...