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2025

June

Testing luggage trackers (Vietnam)

May

A single unruly lock of hair (Singapore)

April

The bookstore in Ginza (Japan)

March

The dancer (Singapore)

February

Bad decisions (Vietnam)

January

Love is far away (Vietnam)

2024

November

Collecting Nostalgia and Tofu Nwe (Cambodia)

October

Falling apart (Burma) Among the Kachin (Malaysia)

September

The Vision (Japan) The shoe fixing man (Vietnam)

August

The art of leaving notes (Singapore)

June

Asia Overland, perhaps the best travel guide ever

May

I love Lan Anh (Vietnam)

February

Tibetan tea and Nur (China)

January

The girl with the fixed lens camera (Thailand)

2023

December

A mischievous host (Cambodia)

November

Please don’t hurry my order (Singapore)

October

The old backpacker area of Bangkok (Thailand)

September

Hand drawn maps (Sri Lanka)

August

I love airports (Thailand)

June

Food from Burma in Bangkok (Thailand)

April

Apple shop names (Cambodia)

March

A return to the North (Thailand)

January

New Year’s Day (Japan) Million elephants and the fastest train (Laos)

2022

December

The neighbor (Vietnam) Alley kids in Vientiane (Laos) I love Hanoi, but only in the winters (Vietnam)

November

A week in Mangalore (India) Other people’s lives in alleys (Vietnam) For a free giraffe (Vietnam)

July

When I miss Burma (Singapore) Holland Village (Singapore) Why I love Saigon (Vietnam)

June

It was good knowing the curious (China)

May

Music from a lost age (Cambodia)

April

Soviet Nostalgia in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

2021

December

Postage stamps (Vietnam) Travelogues and travels (Vietnam)

October

A large object that makes familiar sounds (Singapore)

February

The little phone (Vietnam) iPoh (Malaysia)

January

The Fall (Movie)

2020

December

Racism as a predictive model

October

Favorite bookstores in Southeast Asia (Cambodia)

January

A return to Shanghai (China)

2019

November

Only problem going to Imphal (India)

October

Travels with the Korean fish (Singapore) The precious (Vietnam)

August

Danger sign skull (Vietnam) Ugly XXX tourists (Asia)

July

Cindy and Banh Béo (Vietnam)

April

Cine Lux and the Ahp (Cambodia)

March

The kitten that rescued us (Vietnam)

February

Peeping into India (Japan)

January

Hello stinky tofu (Taiwan)

2018

November

People get busy (China) I am a cat and I love your city (Indonesia)

October

Tibetan and Uighur food in Osaka (Japan) Little friends (China)

August

A terrible country (Russia)

July

The colorful alley of Yangon (Burma) Back for the trains and kefir (Russia)

June

Shocking Pink (Burma) Rains of (Burma) Knowing tribes and people (Vietnam)

April

Saigon, April 1975 (Vietnam) The newcomer (Vietnam)

January

Came for the ghost, stayed for the view (Vietnam)

2017

December

Thought I had died and gone to heaven (Vietnam)

November

A new Korean idol (Vietnam)

October

もったいない, do not waste (Singapore) Best time in a city’s life (Cambodia) The only ones without wifi (Vietnam)

September

The best camera (Japan)

August

Always wander into that alley (Vietnam)

July

The che seller in downtown Saigon (Vietnam)

May

The art of traveling light All you have to do is exist (Vietnam)

March

News of the city (Hong Kong)

2016

December

A face in the crowd (Vietnam)

November

The travels of amazing miss Brown (Vietnam)

October

Getting some sleep (China)

August

I will defect in a hurry (China)

July

A dead drop in Saigon (Vietnam)

May

Takoyaki laments (Vietnam) The cutest bookseller in the world (Burma)

April

Down by the Mekong Delta (Vietnam)

March

Exploring the ethnic enclaves in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

2015

October

Learning in small groups (Cambodia)

September

An odd god (Cambodia)

July

For the love of free food (Malaysia)

April

The raid (Malaysia) Food is just an excuse (Japan)

2014

July

Time travel via outdated travel guides (Malaysia) The Little Burma in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

May

Skirts (Thailand)

April

Technology optimism in South East Asia (Vietnam)

March

The reader (Vietnam) Thinker, watcher, knitter, spy (Vietnam)

January

The last days of Zone 9 (Vietnam)

2013

August

My heroes (Indonesia)

May

Chemistry lessons in rural Java (Indonesia) The thing that flows in your blood (Indonesia)

2012

August

An old raincoat won’t ever let you down (Singapore)

June

Libraries for community learning (Singapore)

2011

November

The art of getting lost (Japan) The caravanserai (Malaysia)

September

Emperor’s no clothes (Singapore)

June

Social Learning via crowd-sourced educational events (Singapore)

2010

October

Is there a god? (Singapore)

May

The new new thing (Japan)

2009

November

In Hoi An (Vietnam)

March

Cheap Chinese imports (Burma)

January

Avenging Gobi Manchurian (China)

2008

April

The stick men of Chongqing (China)

January

Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia)

2007

February

Oni go away (Singapore)

January

Deja Vu in (China)

2006

August

Finding chicken rice in Hainan (China)

March

Reading naughty Vietnamese poems (Singapore)

2005

November

The Ramayana (Thailand)

October

We were playing war games (India)

August

A rakhi from my sparring partner (China)

May

Summers in (Burma)

April

88 and 521, bye bye and I love you (China)

March

A Korean travelogue on (India) The fashion from the 1970s (Thailand)

January

The Yeren, Yeti’s cousin (China) Love and hate for Japan (China) Naughty stuff in Chengdu (China)

2004

December

Why must we buy China’s food (Korea)

October

Nostalgia (Singapore)

September

A strong miss (China)

August

To make a little girl smile (Thailand)

April

Why I love (Burma) The Shan girl ponders (Thailand)

February

Special feelings (China)

January

The lantern city (China)

2003

December

Riverside in Guangzhou (China)

September

Deep blue Mongolian sky (China) Mutton soup in the ancient capital (China)

June

The dancer (Korea) Taking the wrong bus (Korea) For a glimpse of (Burma)

March

Seeking discomfort (China) Chairman Mao was a good boy (China)

2002

December

A close shave in Shanghai (China) Time to go back (Laos)

March

The island of mystery and magic (The Philippines)

2001

December

A song for every person (China) The áo dài calendar (Vietnam) The Vietnamese dub (Vietnam)

September

Here no longer be dragons (China)

August

The last disco in Yunnan (China)

June

I want to stay (Burma)

January

Snake snack and other such (China)

2000

June

The darkness (Malaysia) Staying in, Mandalay (Burma) When I am 64 (India)