You got to like a country that offers beer to their Deities. Vietnam is a country of fiery kitchens, each with its own flair from the tip of the north to the fresh sea food and mi six bull frogs of the south.
Viet-Yumm!
Fat Kitty, Meth Kitty
The cat curse followed me to China. Are all single females of a certain age destined to become crazy cat ladies?
Twenty Thousand Zì
If a picture is worth a thousand words (Zì), what Chinese hand gestures do you give these twenty photos?
Roses méi
A rose by any other name is still a rose, unless, of course, it’s a patented variety in Kunming, China.
Pingba
It’s not any particular dish, spice, or occasional parasite that makes Chinese cuisine unbootleg-able (unlike phones, movies, or fashion). It’s the ingredients you can’t put in a recipe.
Nóng jiā lè Farm Restaurants
Colonel Sanders, move over. If you want chicken, visit a Nóng jiā lè 農家樂 or farmhouse restaurant in rural Yunnan.
Year of the Octopus
Do students spend more time researching an animal for a report than they do a prospective school?
Guǐ 鬼 Town
instead of wearing traditional Chinese clothing and a silver colander on my head, I would want one where Father Time believed in Daylight Saving Time–make that Daylight Saving Year–Ok, Decade– turning back the clock to when a muffin top was my breakfast choice, not my middle.