It takes some doing but I have finally found my favourite krapao place. My all-time favourite still remains Auntie Pin’s, of course, with that surprising flash-fried liver. But Auntie Pin’s house is all the way in Saraburi, two hours away from Bangkok. Part of the … Continue readingKod Krapao
I had run out of coffee beans or I was lazy to brew my usual morning cuppa. The real reason doesn’t matter; what it meant was that I had to go out if I was going to get my usual fix of A.M. caffeine. Outside … Continue readingAribica
In conversation with my best bro recently, I was taken with how he characterised his long weekend break as time for a reset. That word announced its urgency and import: RESET. Surely I needed a reset too? When life feels like a constant rush and … Continue readingReset
The past couple of months have flown by in a flurry. Clearly I haven’t kept to my fantasy of posting daily blog entries, but that’s okay. What we aspire to and what we actually achieve aren’t such different things, when seen from kinder lenses. And … Continue readingOnward, ho!
Our friend Jenny sends us a postcard from Taipei. It’s for the Lunar New Year. The very picture of wintertime bliss: a tiger bathing in hot spring, complete with a face towel on top of his head. He looks grumpy, but it’s probably the way … Continue readingHear the onsen roar
It’s our last day in New Zealand. We are back in Auckland, to recuperate after driving all over the South Island before our flight home. For a little mid-afternoon pick me up, we head to Ponsonby Central in the gentrified neighbourhood of the same name. … Continue readingBack to our bones