Ho Chi Minh City

Short work trip and a glimpse of the saigon sunset while cabbing back to the hotel after work.



Sampling of authentic Hue cuisine for lunch with the client. Was so full after the assorted starters i had to cancel my main dish.





3-5 April 2012

Bits of Beijing

Snippets from a recent work trip in Beijing.
14-17 March 2012



We had Xinjiang cuisine while we were there and it turns out to be my top 3 meals among all my travels to date! Omg I absolutely enjoyed the exquisite taste of every single dish. It's a little bit greek, a little bit turkish, sour-ry with vinegar, onions, tomatoes, pita bread soaked in this gorgeous lamb gravy with spices galore... mm-mmmm I need to visit Xinjiang one of these days.









Met up with an ex-colleague and his friend for drinks and dessert at 后海, a lake in Central Beijing surrounded by a long string of bars and pubs with live bands and singers.

Phu Quoc Island

Project Site Visit to Phu Quoc Island, south of Vietnam.


Arrival at Phu Quoc via one of those propeller type planes.


Construction Site inspection.


Local Vietnamese cuisine with the client at one the alfresco restaurants on the island.


View from our dinner table.


Phu Quoc beach just a few minutes walk from where we were staying.

1-2 March 2012

Have breakfast, will travel!

This is kinda like a cheat post but a friend sent 50 of the world's best breakfasts via email and i spent some half an hour scrutinising all the breakfast spreads, trying to decide which was my favourite. They all looked seriously gorgeously yummy. One day i hope to be able to say i've sampled all fifty. Hmm I'm surprised Hong Kong's dim sum/ yum cha didn't make the list. Oh and if Singapore does, i vote Kaya Toast with cold hard butter pieces and 2 soft-boiled eggs with light and dark soya sauce and pepper, and kopi served in those vintage coffee cups and saucer. I can just imagine what the photo will look like already. Mm-mmm. Looks like i should head on down to Chin Mee Chin, my favourite childhood breakfast place along East Coast Road this weekend!

Yangon, Myanmar

On a recent 3-day work trip to Yangon, i kinda fell in love with Burmese food.


Nan gyi thok - its like pho or laksa thick rice noodle with some kind of peanutty curry gravy and garnished with toasted chickpea flour, sliced onions, chilies, crispy noodles, slices of hard-boiled egg, and zested with lime. The flavours! Absolutely yummy.


We were treated to an authentic burmese sit-down meal and by sit-down i mean sitting on the floor cross-legged around a low round table. Dish after dish was served, almost like the side dishes in a korean meal... the dishes all had a curious look about them and i enjoyed this lunch very much.

Oh and fresh sliced garlic with fish sauce and lime and cut chilli as dip - loved loved loved it! i must try and make that some time.

I must try their famous mohinga next time!