Foot and Fire

I am sharing to you today my Top Three Favorite Noodle Houses which happen to be all located in New York and all deserve a rave review from me, and one flop in Washington DC as it happens to be the only one I went to which has to be called out by me (haha!) for them to improve.  TOP THREE: VIETNAMESE PHO IN QUEENS There is this Vietnamese Pho in Queens, NY which serves a big bowl of noodle soup with a very simple broth which I could not detect if there's some fish sauce in it, fresh ingredients of mung sprouts, herbs and beef pieces, and with the usual flat rice noodles we associate with Vietnamese Pho.  The sauce is sweet and spicy and are served for the optional drizzle by the customer which I find weird because Vietnamese Pho is just simple. But I believe the resto served Thai dishes too, thus the Sriracha.  Hunt for this Vietnamese and Thai noodle house and you will never say no to their piping hot bowl. Check my video here . TOP TWO: K...

A touchdown to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will always keep one's busy eyes to sprouting palm trees, a view one cannot often expect from a busy capital city. A roam around the city will give one an impression that nature can thrive in a bustling city too. Outside our hotel, birds are chirping. I can say, this must only be in Kuala Lumpur. While my friends are just here for a quick stop en route to Myanmar, we enjoyed KL. It is a timely visit because 2014 is their tourism year. But mind you, the taxi drivers are not that tourist-friendly. *** The Petronas Twin Towers is the tallest twin building in the world. Fun fact is that they are 1,483 feet high and with 88 floors. Constructed in late 1990s, they symbolised Malaysia's importance in the world economic arena. *** Although I cannot quite grasp the import of these two giant things I photographed in Berjaya Times Square, I still find it interesting to include them here. One is a giant capsule dispense...

At Sampheng Market Sampheng Market is located at the China Town area of Bangkok, Thailand and it is just a walking distance from our hotel, Grande Ville. Walking along the alleys of the market is one of the good means of observing Thai's ways of life. There are colorful dried fruits and nuts, sumptuous noodles we were hesitant to try then, lots of fruits and fruit juices, and many small stuffs to bring home. Here are the samplings of our photos: Many uploads can be found at this link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43901&id=1610485923 This is the commonly seen vendor on the street. They sell fruits and remarkably, the broiled, not boiled, eggs with sticks on them, so that they look like lollipops. The Thai lady is packing her various biscuits for retail sale. The longer I stayed in the market, I can say that Thais are very resourceful and have efficient ways of doing things from peeling of pineapples, making fresh fruit juices and like this lady packing her...