It’s Soup! Not Menopause!
I was never a big fan of soups. Aside from matzo ball soup of course. But I don’t really consider that a soup. It’s more of a baseball-sized dumpling with broth-like gravy and maybe some…
Insane Hollywood Moment #468
Ten years ago I used to be one of several assistants to a Hollywood film producer who was always on the go. If he wasn’t at the studio or on the set of one of…
Meet Mr. Bau aka “the Hong Kong Jew-eler!”
Here’s a little recap of the Hong Kong layover so far…. Our first night in Hong Kong we had dinner at the Shanghai Gardens Restaurant in Admiralty and the meal was ginormous so we had…
Cooking Class in Chiang Mai Part 2 of 2
To read the first part of this Chiang Mai story, Part 1 of 2 After a few hours of picking over the Chiang Mai market for the ingredients we needed, we piled back into the…
Thai massage & our first real Pad Thai
“You have to get a massage every day in Thailand!” “They’re like $10 for an hour.” Everyone who has been to Thailand rages about the massages. Some even confirm the “happy endings” are real. Well…
Unexpected fabulous dinner in Koh Samui
Since I’ve fallen behind in my updates from the trip I’m going to post in the past-tense moving forward….just go with it. So we arrived on Koh Samui (Koh is Thai for island) in the…
Dinner with Thai Locals Jack & Lek
Whenever I travel internationally I try to seek out the restaurants where the locals eat, because that’s the only way to ensure you’re going to get an authentic experience from cuisine to culture. Restaurants and…
Are we there yet?
These last few months I’ve been fortunate enough to travel around the world: first to Europe and now Asia. I know it sounds crazy, but I love airplane food, and now that the airlines are…