I was looking forward to going back to Palau and Koror for a lot of reasons, with a primary one being the great food. And at the top of the Koror food pile? In my mind it is Carp Restaurant. Amazingly this was to be my first time back in Palau after a 4 year…
Having tried to visit Myanmar for like 10 years I was extremely excited to make it country 174! Even more exciting though was to see what the nightlife and street food Yangon scene was like. It would be fairly fair to say that Myanmar has its fair share of problems,. What with the coup’s and…
Through my work I get to visit a lot of very interesting places, which includes the odd arms fair. And this is what led me to the Egypt Defense Expo, AKA EDEX 2023 Why would I go to an arms festival? Well part of my work does involve me being a high-risk travel consultant, so…
For those not aware, whilst Cairo is the capital of Egypt, there is a new Egypt Capital, which has the imaginative name of New Administrative Capital. I found this out by asking our guide – who confirmed what a crap name it was. In case you are interested though it is called العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة…
While I obviously love street food, it is quite rare that something truly blows my socks off, but koshary seriously managed to do that for me in Cairo. Referred to by locals as their ultimo “soul food”, my Egyptian friends said they eat it at least once, or twice a week and I can now…
At some point I will do a whole street food Yangon, or street food Myanmar blog, but for now I will settle for a little gem I found, lime fruit salad in Yangon. As with most great finds this was indeed accidentally found when we went to visit the main temple, namely the Shwedagon Pagoda….
