There might be new sparkling shiny restaurants popping in Pyongyang, but for veterans of the country there are some foods dining options that are still unbeatable. Chief among them, Gasoline Clams in Nampho. Now, I know what you are thinking! This sounds insane, unsafe and not very nice. I also thought these things before I…
If you know anything about visiting North Korea then you will have heard of Air Koryo. The state flag carrier they have become infamous for being the so called “one star airline” and for what it is like to eat on Air Koryo. This is primarily for the notorious Air Koryo Burger, or rather mystery…
Bun Moc is one of those Saigon street food dishes that never really gets the same global attention as pho, but in reality it is exactly the kind of thing you end up eating if you spend any real time in the city. It is simple, fast, unpretentious food that exists purely because people are…
There are few street foods that I balk at trying, but pag pag was definitely one of them. Basically it is leftover fast food, mostly chicken from KFC or Jollibee, that is taken from the trash, cleaned, boiled and then fried to make a cheap snack for the Manila slums. Salivating yet? Probably not, but…
Bánh bột lọc is not something you really go looking for. It is one of those Vietnamese dishes that tends to appear on a menu when you are already slightly confused, slightly hungry, and not in the mood to decode every single line in front of you. That was exactly the situation in Phnom Penh,…
The Vietnamese like noodles and they like soup, so combining the two is basically a national habit. That is what led me to bun mam (bún mắm) on a rainy day in Hanoi, when the streets were slick, traffic was chaos as always, and the smell of something fermented and seafood-heavy drifting out of a…
