Well, considering I’m not doing much with it anyway, and it is slipping away from me for lack of practice. I really don’t mind doing a language exchange with people who want to learn Hindi. At the very least, you could learn a few useful phrases for when you’re traveling in India, and I will [...]
Surprisingly unmentioned in guide books and expat magazines in Saigon, Akbar Ali has been around for a good number of years and serves a smashing chicken curry. Akbar Ali is located at 240 Bui Vien, in the Pham Ngu Lao (backpacker) area of Ho Chi Minh City. I have to say, Akbar Ali is our [...]
Our three week quest for good kebabs came to an end last night at Shahi Quila, or Royal Fort restaurant. Shahi Quila is located at 226 Bui Vien, in the Pham Ngu Lao area of Ho Chi Minh City. The chicken tikka kebabs were so good, they inspired (sic) me to write a review. Soft [...]
I had read online that the airports of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are just ramshackle buildings with few flights taking off the tarmac on any given day. Imagine my surprise, when we stepped off our (very colorful) Thai Airways flight, through the aerobridge, and entered an airport which could’ve been anywhere in N.America [...]
This was a really, really simple Babaganoush recipe that was a major hit at P’s school reunion/drunken night party.
So the cross-country road trip is long over. And if there have been no updates since, it’s because life been a long series of habitual nothingness. In the time since the road trip, mid-Nov through mid-Jan, P and I were in India… chilling our butts off, if there is such an expression. It was sort [...]
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