South East Asia

Strained tea and Kerala Parotha (A chewy, buttery and flakey layered Indian flatbread) is available across Asia and is very popular, with good reason too – It’s cheap, quick to make and of course absolutely delicious.

Kerala Paratha - Indian flat bread and curry sauce

Kerala Paratha - Indian flat bread with curry sauce

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Award Winning Design

September 1, 2009 · 6 comments

For the afternoon I (upon reccomendation of a girl in my hostel) went to the Red Dot Museum. There is only 2 of these in the world, the other being in Germany, so I was expecting a bit of a treat and a unique experience. Certainly outside the traffic building (named this because it used to be the base of traffic police in Singapore) it was brightly painted in a red hue and attention seeking.

An award winning chair

An award winning chair

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Singapore Museum of Art

August 15, 2009 · 1 comment

On arrival at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) I noticed the large bronze statue of a man with 2 children above the entrance (Used to be a school and the man is, certainly hard to miss. I was fortunate enough to time my arrival (2pm) with the start of a free tour presented by Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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Cambodian flag hanging at half-mast in the Killing Fields

Cambodian flag hanging at half-mast in the Killing Fields

During the Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam war, over 200,000 people were executed and buried in the killing fields just outside Phnom Penh, the captial of Cambodia. The total deaths of the regime is estimated to be Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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“You want to try?”

I was on the 5 hour bus ride from Siem Reap to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. The Cambodia girl next to me was delightfully holding up a deep fried grasshopper which was staring at me through it’s fried eyeball held by its tail. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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