While I obviously love street food, it is quite rare that something truly blows my socks off, but koshary seriously managed to do that for me in Cairo. Referred to by locals as their ultimo “soul food”, my Egyptian friends said they eat it at least once, or twice a week and I can now…
At some point I will do a whole street food Yangon, or street food Myanmar blog, but for now I will settle for a little gem I found, lime fruit salad in Yangon. As with most great finds this was indeed accidentally found when we went to visit the main temple, namely the Shwedagon Pagoda….
On arrival in Yangon I genuinely did not know what to expect from a cultural, culinary, or drinking point of view. Well it turns out that people are really friendly, they have great food and the party? The party is at 19th Street Yangon. And overall we also found that most importantly it was indeed…
Is it safe to travel to Myanmar in 2023? The short answer is that yes it is, so long as you are staying in the main tourist areas, namely Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan for example. For travel to other areas, such as anyone bordering China, the Shan State, or the area populated by the Rohingya…
With three days to kill in Bangkok and slightly bored of night markets, I pretty much googled beaches near Bangkok. One of the top 10 was Hua Hin, with it also involving a train journey, which I like. What the Hua Hin? Acquiring to Interwebz this beach town south of Bangkok was initially popular with…
Qalansiya might not be world renowned, but it is the second largest “city” in Socotra, perhaps the most underrated, unknown and off the beaten track places on earth. But, is there a street food scene in Qalansiya? To read about Socotra Tours click here Qalansiya and Socotra Socotra is an island off of Yemen, technically….
