Articles Archive for November 2009

What have we been up to?

Henry and I have been taking a big blog break since we left Hong Kong to start our tour of Asia with our favorite New Yorkers, Jen and Nance. I would go into better detail, but I think Henry is working on something already. But briefly, we first flew into Beijing and spent an awesome five days before flying into the southwestern province of Yunnan to wreak more havoc for another five days. By the start of the third week, we were working our way towards the southern part of …

Delicious! Seafood in Vietnam

Vietnam is one of the highest shrimp producing countries in the world. As you can imagine, the seafood here is grrrrreeeat. With Angela and me both being seafood enthusiasts, we obviously wouldn’t miss it for the world. This was at a street side restaurant in the Mekong Delta. We picked the seafood that was on display and they cooked it in open flame. The shrimps were jumping when I picked them. Sorry, their loss was my gain.

Delicious! Vietnamese street food not on the streets

The street foods in Vietnam all look amazing, but many people have warned us against them for sanitary reasons. Here is a restaurant in Hanoi with a nice decor without the high end price. In this restaurant are many stalls that serve the most authentic Vietnamese street foods and beverages. You can walk around first to take a look and then go back to your table and order from the menu. It was so good that we went to the same restaurant when we got to Ho Chi Minh City.

Delicious! Vietnamese vegetarian noodles

Asia is the land of noodles. Whether you go north to Japan or south to Indonesia, you will see plenty of noodles. Here we were riding a scooter in the Mekong Delta and came across this dive with quite a few customers. Great thing about being on a scooter is that you can just pull right in. We walked in, people curiously looked at us for not knowing how to order, and the owner made us this bowl of noodles.

Delicious! Singapore prawn mee

Eating is a very big part of our travels. We both love food (but Angela more so than me) and we love to sample local cuisines. We get ecstatic when we come across a great local meal with a great price, and we get bumbed out when extorted by a tourist trap. After having sampled so much good food along the way, I find that it only makes sense to dedicate some real estate on this blog to food. I introduce the new category “delicious!”. There won’t be a lot of …

Motorcycle diaries

Today is our last day in Vietnam. It was only last Sunday that we walked across the border into Vietnam from Yunnan, China. There, we started touring Vietnam from top to bottom. We started at Sapa, moved south to Hanoi, down to Danang and Hoi An, and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City two days ago. We haven’t seen much of HCMC, however, because we opted to do an overnight trip to the Mekong Delta. We arrived at My Tho early yesterday afternoon. This is a city that’s considered one …

Brrrrrr in Beijing

Our time in Beijing came and went quickly. Our car is picking us up tomorrow morning at 6AM, and we will be on our way to the Yunnan province. It was a fun-filled stay in Beijing. OK, may be minus the pushing and shoving in the Forbidden City and the unwelcoming early arrival of the snow. It has been at freezing or below freezing the last few days. All of us had to purchase gloves, hats, and thermo long sleeves underwear in order to survive. Speaking of the Forbidden City, it was …