Ahh Japan. The destination that many travellers desire. The perennial trending subject on social media.
Japanese cuisine, culture, quirks, technology, and everything kawaii have inspired endless posts, stories, reels, YouTube videos, and TikToks. If one didn't know better, you'd think it was the dream destination on this planet.
While I love the food, the service and the shopping, the sheer number of tourists (me included) has become a turn-off. I'm not talking about those who inconven
Note: Click here to read Pt. 1, where the journey began in Hong Kong.
NEXT UP: CHONGQING
Day 3, cont.: Dad had decided on the scenic route to Chongqing - train. We did not realise that the immigration process at the Hong Kong Kowloon West station involved both the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities, so we found ourselves in a rush to board the train (we boarded minutes before the scheduled departure).
Through the eight-hour journey, the passing sights made me realise the diversity
Curry. When many of us think of Indian food, we naturally think of curry.
Except, well, 'curry' isn't actually a thing. Not the word, and not even technically the food that we think of.
Many of us probably think of curry as some sort of dish that has a gravy or sauce. But that is in fact a generalisation of a wide variety of Indian dishes, and also a decidedly Western invention intrinsically tied to India's Colonial past. 'Curry' as a word doesn't actually exist in the languages spok
It used to be that when a person was visiting China for the first time, the natural choice was Beijing. No better way to learn about a country than a visit to its capital, amirite? Having had their fill of Peking duck and climbed the Great Wall of China, the next places they would likely look at are those on the east coast - Shanghai, Nanjing, perhaps Harbin.
In recent times though, the southwestern parts of China have gotten much coverage on social media. Chongqing, the country’s largest c
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