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….
Whether this is actually the best bar in Yangon I do not know as I did not get enough time to drink absolutely everywhere, but Disco School Girl Bar was certainly the best bar on 19th Street. What attracted me to this bar? Well there are only about 5 bars on the street, so I…
If you are looking for the place where all the cool kids go to party in Yangon, then it would appear that the place to be is THOR, or rather The Heart of Rangoon (Thor you get it). Finding Thor in the Yangon Nightlife Before coming here I had actually not heard of the place,…
On arrival in Yangon I genuinely did not know what to expect from a cultural, culinary, or drinking point of view. Well it turns out that people are really friendly, they have great food and the party? The party is at 19th Street Yangon. And overall we also found that most importantly it was indeed…
