A quick update before we hit the Thai Isles, where Internet may be limited and sand in over abundance: We spent five nights in the Cameron Highlands. The air was cool, the hikes ranged from gentle to not so gentle, the tea estates were magnificent,…
We landed in Hong Kong late at night. The next morning we woke at 7am and, determined to put a clamp on any transpacific jetlag, we set off in search of coffee. Local coffee, of course, because to get anything other than a cultural infusion…
Kuala Lumpur went by in a blur, not because we were drunk, since drinks in Malaysia are unaffordable on our shoestringer of a budget. No, KL was hazy because it is a city that is both blessed and plagued by its own infrastructure. Touring…
There is no size large thus far in Asia, only small and medium. Often times, as was the case with the odd Nonya dumpling, medium costs 7 cents more than small. Items are often described as MUST buys. Slurpee special at 7-11 is a must…
We found our guesthouse in Kuala Lumpur just as thick drops of rain were beginning to pierce through the sticky heat. This wasn’t our first choice and hardly the only place we looked. But bohemian-inspired Le Village had been boarded up sometime since Lonely Planet…
To describe Singapore in one word wouldn’t truly do it justice. Nor would a sentence, or even a paragraph really. In fact, I’m not exactly sure how I feel about Singapore, other than that, relative to the one other place we’ve been to thus far,…
Maya teaches a few Melaka locals how to make a snake, with slithering tongue, with your hands. This will be a big hit for Chinese New Year. Tell your friends.
Check out the house band at the Sands resort and casino in Macau. A sea of calm amongst a sea of very very calm and serious gamblers.
As related to me by Taylor Dixon, a tai-pan in the truest sense:
There’s something to be said for a week in Hong Kong: Our shin splints have given way to calves of steel and an uncanny ability to manoeuvre crowds. Our steamed dumpling radar is more or less bang on. And our Cantonese sucks. Trying to pass…
