Danger sign skull (Vietnam) August 30, 2019 Vietnamese danger skulls are always looking sideways. I find it looks cute compared to skulls in other countries. Street artists love to decorate Ugly XXX tourists (Asia) August 19, 2019 I have been traveling for 25 odd years and a common refrain every few years is demonization of a particular country’s people as the worst tourists - Cindy and Banh Béo (Vietnam) July 15, 2019 Cindy treated me to dinner at one of her favorite places— a small street shop near the airport that sells Banh Béo— rice cakes with various toppings Cine Lux and the Ahp (Cambodia) April 30, 2019 Phnom Penh’s long standing movie hall Ciné Lux built in the late 1930s has closed down. I used to cross the busy intersection here to reach my home The kitten that rescued us (Vietnam) March 18, 2019 I was walking around downtown Saigon and I saw a strange sight: a cardboard box moving by itself and it was making crying sounds. Looking closer, I Peeping into India (Japan) February 3, 2019 Some years back I found a travel book on India written and illustrated by a Japanese stage designer Senoh Kappa. I enjoyed looking at the sketches Hello stinky tofu (Taiwan) January 2, 2019 This is a street food I always look for when I am in Taiwan. The stinky tofu (臭豆腐 / chòudòufu) is fermented tofu. I vividly remember the ”aroma”, People get busy (China) November 2, 2018 I remember, I think it was in 2004, I was in a fast-food restaurant in Changsha typing something on my iBook. A fellow patron came and sat next to I am a cat and I love your city (Indonesia) November 1, 2018 Why do you travel to Jakarta so often?, they ask. I reply, “You know how when a cat loves someone, it tries to rub itself all around. I am that Tibetan and Uighur food in Osaka (Japan) October 20, 2018 I used to hang out a lot at a Tibetan cafe in Chengdu, soaking in the Yak butter tea and smelling like a Yak. Tibetan food is not particularly Next page