Retuning for my yearly jaunt to Palawan and El Nido would once gain demonstrate how things change here, with some old favoutits gone and some nice new entrants, one if which being Big Mamas! Slightly sadder though were the closures chief among them being the the Ukrainian restaurant Odessa Mama, which is now boarded up…
Being clover of southeast Asian cuisine I was super excited to try the food in North Sumatra. Sadly not only was the trip itself rather disappointing, but the food was frankly awful. This has actually frankly got me thinking about food in Indonesia in general, which I think might actually be more the problem here,…
Die to just how much I saw this rink everywhere I assumed that Badak was a big deal throughout the country, but upon further investigation it turned out that this was a real Sumatra thing and a good thing at that. Said drink was discovered as part of a research trip that took me to…
The Hotel Deli River is one of the best hotels in Medan as well as a great launching pad for travel within the region. This though brother than making it excellent is more an incitement in how bad things are in the region. I was personally here as part of a research trip and private…
When I last visited Goroka I was not only recommended Roots Mangyi Ginger “firewater”, but after missing the liqueur store and failing to get any steam was left with no alternative. According to various followers and netizens this was the local equivalent to firewater. Just how true though was this statement? Well there was only…
Is it worth visiting Samosir Island in Indonesia? Well I could be flippant and simply say no, but then this would be a very short article. And in fact the real answer is a bot more nuanced. I personally found myself here as a part of a private trip – that I had not prepared…
