Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category

#10-#12 The Holy Trinity of Asia: Japan, Thailand, Vietnam

One of my closest friends in NYC had a birthday earlier this week, and I invited her out to lunch as a (lameass) birthday gift. It wasn’t really the most altruistic gift, though–I insisted that we go out for the ethnic food of her choice, as long as she selected one of the 164 national […]

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#8 Singapore: Prawn Me. No Really, Prawn Me.

I’m not one of those dorky guys who worships Quentin Tarantino, and I’ve never been a huge fan of the movie True Romance.  But for some strange reason, there’s a scene in that movie that has always stuck in my head.  Gary Oldman plays a mean ugly pimp who beats the living crap out of […]

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