Close this MANILA, Philippines — For reasons still unclear, Cebu Pacific Air canceled an evening flight to Bangkok on Thursday, stranding 136 passengers until Friday. Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-931 was g…

Inspired by the food photos from Laos I decided to make a pot of thom khem all on my own. It was more than ten years ago since my mother made a pot of thom khem and since I hardly eat pork, there was never a good reason to make the dish. I…

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I spent a year living in Vientiane without a working kitchen. This meant I ate out for dinner every night. I visited a lot of restaurants in Vientiane, almost all of them. The food in Vientiane is excellent. It’s diverse and not expensive. There is a large expat community in Vientiane and I think that [...]

BANGKOK, 11 April 2008 (IRIN) - The deaths on 9 April of 54 illegal migrant workers from Myanmar, who suffocated in the back of a container truck while being smuggled to the Thai resort island of Phuk…

Lucky Nicola :)Apparently they did not check my ticket YES!So gonna move on to Singapur tomorrow.Allready did a littel pre celebrating for my indonesian visa yesterday :)Went to the movies an did my usuall traveller chores ( hairdresser, buying sungla…

i sat next to a sikh man (judging by his dress) on the second leg of my trip. he runs a liquor store in LA and was trekking home for a ten-day visit with his elderly parents. he told me that he came to the u.s. five years ago because his children rea…

Often I hear people discussing what’s the best thing to wear to go for a walk, specifically “trekking” in South East Asia.Above my old hiking boots. My first pair I spent a two week pay check to buy, I think they were about $65 in 1974. Eventuall…

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