In Taiwanese cuisine, pickled and dried plums are a speciality passed down from the Japanese dish Umeboshi (梅干). These are flavoured with salt, giving quite an intensely sour and salty taste… more →
Gourmet Piggywrote 6 hours ago: Aside from our one month stay in Hong Kong for our vacation, we took the advantage and planned a min … more →
wrote 17 hours ago: Up in the emerald green mountains of Taiwan’s north-east coast sits Jiufen, a small gold-mining vill … more →
wrote 5 days ago: While living in Taipei, we got many opportunities to try new and (to us) strange foods, especially a … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I went along to the first ever Hamilton Night Markets tonight, and took Zoe along with me. The atmos … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: To my wonderful readers – I would never abandon you, purposely disappoint you, or just leave you won … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m not really one for shopping – browsing, yes, but actual shopping, no. I hate the pressure to fin … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Kenting is referred to as “Taiwan’s Hawaii”. 5 years ago, I had the pleasure of experiencing Hawaii … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Seven of us arrived in Bangkok, Thailand with only 24 hours to spare in the city. And, boy, you can … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Intense smells of fried fish, barbecued pork and durian cling to my sticky skin as I venture through … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Usually, when people think of East Asia, three countries immediately pop up in their head: China, Ja … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I took a train from Taipei to Taichung (9-11:18). The train was at 60mph. Compare to the HSR 170mph, … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Tarts in a bakery window in Campo de Fiori, Rome One popular post I wrote a while back was all about … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I impulse-booked my ticket to Taipei based on street food alone; I’ve heard the chow was pheno … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I was happy to receive a parcel of freshly washed and pressed clothing from the hotel yesterday afte … more →
wrote 1 month ago: So it’s currently 12:10am. Alex and I apparently need to be up at 5:45, downstairs by 6 for ou … more →
wrote 2 months ago: When I knew I was going to Seoul, I tried to close my eyes and imagine what this city would look lik … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Cruising a night market close to Where 2 Next Hostel in Manila. My time in the Filipino capital was … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Archive for 22/2/2013 The ride into Siem Reap was just like all towns, traffic everywhere and people … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The weekend from February 21st to the 25th, myself and and a bunch of the exchange students from UST … more →