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,…
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…
What a difference a day makes. After a 14 hour connecting flight through Beijing, my first move as a savvy backpacker is to totter up to the transit information booth, cut in front of another group of travelers, and exclaim “How much is the bus…
