asian food

The coffee doesn’t taste the same “But the coffee doesn’t taste the same as at home”. How many times have we heard that? Funny, (funny peculiar), how someone travelling half-way around the world would expect certain things to be different yet hope, (assume), that other things would be the same. Now the people have to be different; the photogenic orange-clad…

Street food in Southeast Asia There are never going to be zero health risks from eating market or street food in Southeast Asia but then there’s never a zero risk anywhere. (One of our customers recently ended up in the hospital with food poisoning after dining at a 5* hotel in Bangkok !) However, there are a few precautions to…

Southeast Asia Meals We were going to call this post ‘Thailand – meals and eating habits’ but the following goes for pretty much anywhere in Southeast Asia so…Southeast Asia Meals. For those of us brought up in ‘Western’ countries meals traditionally come at set ‘mealtimes’ and consist of foodstuffs and items considered appropriate for that particular meal time.  i.e. breakfast,…

Weird food of Southeast Asia So, weird food of Southeast Asia!? Well, durian, rats, birds’ nests – fair enough, but there are a host of other weird and wonderful food and drink items to be found in Southeast Asia. Some that will have you asking where you can buy a kilo to take home, some that will leave you totally…