Being clover of southeast Asian cuisine I was super excited to try the food in North Sumatra. Sadly not only was the trip itself rather disappointing, but the food was frankly awful. This has actually frankly got me thinking about food in Indonesia in general, which I think might actually be more the problem here,…
Die to just how much I saw this rink everywhere I assumed that Badak was a big deal throughout the country, but upon further investigation it turned out that this was a real Sumatra thing and a good thing at that. Said drink was discovered as part of a research trip that took me to…
The Hotel Deli River is one of the best hotels in Medan as well as a great launching pad for travel within the region. This though brother than making it excellent is more an incitement in how bad things are in the region. I was personally here as part of a research trip and private…
Is it worth visiting Samosir Island in Indonesia? Well I could be flippant and simply say no, but then this would be a very short article. And in fact the real answer is a bot more nuanced. I personally found myself here as a part of a private trip – that I had not prepared…
Despite ludicrous claims to being the friendliest country on earth, in fact Thai’s seem to have a love hate relationship with foreigners, meaning getting arrested in Thailand ass a foreigner is not all that difficult. In fact even by writing this I may well be putting myself on the chopping block, particularly as it is…
What is Paiawara? Paiawara in Papua New Guinea is the regional variant of firewater, or moonshine within Papua New Guinea and indeed other neat places within the region. Yet unlike in other countries in the world it is both taboo and equally a social phenomenon in equal breath. This means that despite some legal ambiguity…
