Gastro-Tourism, Food in Asia and Eating in Southeast Asia. Street Food Fanatic Allan Wilson eats through Favourite Foods in Bangkok, Thailand and Beyond.
I’m typically apprehensive when it comes to ordering new curries worried it maybe too sweet, too mild, carrots, peas, potato, what if it’s fruity. There’s just too many variables to taste and even after an analysis of colour, texture, and smell, it still feels risky with the purchase, although the smell tends to be the …
Most tourists would only glimpse this sandwich shop on passing as they follow TripAdvisor or their Lonely Planet guides to the Lao Kitchen or Noy’s Fruit Heaven further down the line. Very few would ever call in. It’s tatty exterior just not overly inviting for the casual passerby. It’s just too rough and ready, it’s …
I’m not much of an enthusiast when it comes to coffee shops, so you really have to offer me something better than special, to have me drive an hour and a half in the wrong direction. An hour and a half when I already have coffee in my hotel room, and a wealth of Chiang …
I can’t say I’ve eaten through every sai oua sausage (Chiang Mai Sausage / Northern Thai Sausage). In fact it is rare that I even call into the city at all. But I do know my sausage. So I will go out on a limb and say that some of the best Sai Oua Northern …
With its unique Portuguese heritage Macau does host its own cuisine called Macanese foods which, as expected is a bit of a fusion between Portuguese and Chinese food. While this post does cover some Macanese foods, it does go wider covering mostly the simple snack food of Macau which are easy to track down and …
I never could decide whether I loved Red Garden Food Paradise, or hated it. For me it was always my favourite last resort where, if I were unable to afford the rib-eye Rendang at Kafe Mews, or was too tired for Chulia Street’s street food bustle, I would likely be at the Red Garden. So, after …
We’ve passed Sendai Station a number times in transit but, until now, we had never seen further than the bill board backdrop of the area. But the area had intrigued me and (due to a slight change in itinerary) we stayed a night in the Sendai Station area. On the day we actually start in …
This list is bit of a mixed bunch as there was quite a bit of compromise needed (mostly from my side) between me and Fanfan. While I fail to sell her on the Maid Cafes of Akihabara, which are apparently “creepy” and “perverted”, I do manage to party with robots and indulge in other weirdness. Otherwise, we hopefully found …
The most exciting part of travel for me is turning up to a brand new destination, walking into the local corner shop and browsing the booze and through the years I have systematically trolled through a hell of a lot of them. I honestly hope this doesn’t make me sound like a full on alco …
2016 is guaranteed to be a different year for us, where, after five years in Asia, we will take our travels to Europe. For some of our favourite foods of Asia from the past years, check here, otherwise we’re now off to Northern Ireland, which will be our base for travel in the coming year. We …