Longrain restaurant specialises in South East Asian sharing dishes, boasting fresh ingredients and twists on popular dishes. It was also close to the Sheraton, where we were staying, so we popped in for dinner. I’ll come clean; I wasn’t sure about Longrain when we walked past it. It looked too stuffy and polished and seemed…
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The Four Stages of Drinking Vietnamese Egg Coffee For the First Time
Egg Coffee (cà phê trứng) is a Vietnamese drink that is served throughout cafes in Hanoi. It’s made using egg yolk, sugar and coffee, although condensed milk is often included too. It sounded weird, and so of course, we had to try it. The egg coffee, when served (we got ours from the Hanoi Social…
Review: Twilight Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb
What better way to see Sydney in one go than with the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb? That was our reasoning; even though we’d been in Sydney for a week, as Tom was working, he’d not done much exploring and I had mainly explored the food, rather than the sights. It was our last day and…
A Spiritual 12 Hours in Bali: Tirta Empul and my first encounter with Wayan from Eat, Pray, Love
“It’s been a rather spiritual 12 hours, don’t you think?” Tom ventured as I returned from going AWOL at around 6pm. The last Tom saw me, I had popped in to see if healer, Wayan Nuriasih, of Eat Pray Love fame had any appointments tomorrow. That was three and a half hours ago. I agreed,…
Flash Megamoon Part 01: The Balinese Honeymoon
I’ve realised I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to section these blogposts going forward. If each blogpost is a new part, goodness knows what number I’ll get onto. So I’m going to separate them into chapters, staying with country. Therefore, Part 01 will be Indonesia and all the islands and places that go with…
Flash Megamoon Part 01: Getting Away
We were soon to be off! Off for the megamoon of our lives, exploring Bali, Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Burma. We may even manage a cheeky stop in Philippines if we played our cards right. But there were three things that made the lead-up to our megamoon departure hectic. The first…
