looking anxiously at the faces of the people around me to see if I was breakingbánh mìetiquette. Nobody paid me any attention, though, and before I knew it I was at the counter, opposite a small, squat Vietnamese woman taking orders. She eyed me up and down and barked “what you ...
I skimmed through our guidebook, prepared to confirm what I already knew about restaurant opening times, except that instead that I encountered a surprise. A restaurant we had heard about in connection with its famous paellas, the venerableSet Portes, was open all day. After battling out the ...
This is supposedly Anthony Bourdain’s favorite restaurant in Saigon. For the food, I’d agree – we had absolutely amazingca kho to(caramelized catfish) andthit ko(pork belly and eggs braised in coconut water). The restaurant’s gimmick, however – a loud spectacle that involves waiters sma...
Having spent the better part of a decade as a vegetarian, I can safely say that I know vegetable soup pretty well. In fact, there were times in which I had little else to sustain me. One of these was during my first year in college, when like all other freshman students, I was ...
B - Breakfast –Chain Restaurant Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You’re going to need to have a lot of energy for your adventures. We have many local restaurants that serve some of the best breakfast you’ll put in your mouth, but there is one chain restaurant that ...
restaurant calledPojodawhich had came highly recommended to us by three different sources – our guidebook, the owner of the apartment we rented there, and our friends who had been sailing in Croatia recently. I don’t think I’d ever had a single restaurant recommended to me that many ...
with peppers, and in others, a devilishly hot pepper spread with a only a suggestion of pork. And worry not – if, by some slim chance, you happen to be served something in a restaurant that is not quite up to your heat tolerance, just ask for the pepper sauce – they always have ...
I first tasted laksa in Australia, of all places, at a wonderful Malaysian restaurant in Melbourne. Straddling the line between a curry and a soup, it’s really the best of many different Asian traditions and is always a deeply, bottom-of-the-belly satisfying one-bowl meal. It’s a popu...
17. Zam Zam Restaurant I would have gone to this Arab-Quarter eatery for the name alone, but it’s also the first place any Singaporean recommends when you mention you want to try one of the country’s best-loved snacks: themurtabak. A Singapore original, the murtabak is similar in conc...
through this crack in the mountains, our breaths held in unison, well aware that every step forward was a step out of the reach of danger. To divert my focus from the throbbing pain in my legs, I lost myself in pondering the restaurant possibilities for celebrating our survival that night...