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2025

May

A single unruly lock of hair (Singapore)

April

The bookstore in Ginza (Japan)

2024

November

Collecting Nostalgia and Tofu Nwe (Cambodia)

October

Among the Kachin (Malaysia)

September

The Vision (Japan)

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

November

Please don’t hurry my order (Singapore)

October

The old backpacker area of Bangkok (Thailand)

August

I love airports (Thailand)

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

Holland Village (Singapore) Why I love Saigon (Vietnam)

June

It was good knowing the curious (China)

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)

2020

October

Favorite bookstores in Southeast Asia (Cambodia)

January

A return to Shanghai (China)

2019

October

Travels with the Korean fish The precious (Vietnam)

July

Cindy and Banh Béo (Vietnam)

April

Cine Lux and the Ahp (Cambodia)

March

The kitten that rescued us (Vietnam)

2018

October

Little friends (China)

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

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)

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)

2016

December

A face in the crowd (Vietnam)

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 ethnic enclaves in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

2015

September

An odd god (Cambodia)

July

For the love of free food (Malaysia)

April

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

2014

May

Skirts (Thailand)

March

The reader (Vietnam)

2013

May

Chemistry lessons in rural Java (Indonesia)

2012

August

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

2011

November

The art of getting lost (Japan)

2010

October

Is there a god? (Singapore)

2009

November

In Hoi An (Vietnam)

2008

April

The stick men of Chongqing (China)

January

Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia)

2006

August

Finding chicken rice in Hainan (China)

March

Reading naughty Vietnamese poems (Singapore)

2005

October

We were playing war games (India)

August

A rakhi from my sparring partner (China)

April

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

March

The fashion from the 1970s (Thailand)

January

Naughty stuff in Chengdu (China)

2004

December

Why must we buy China’s food (Korea)

October

Nostalgia (Singapore)

August

To make a little girl smile (Thailand)

February

Special feelings (China) A strong miss (China)

January

The Lantern City (China)

2003

September

Mutton soup in the ancient capital (China)

June

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

March

Chairman Mao was a good boy (China)

2002

December

A close shave in Shanghai (China)

March

The island of mystery and magic (The Philippines)

2001

December

A song for every person you meet (China) The áo dài calendar (Vietnam) Time to go back (Laos) 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)