Tag: rice
Daring Cooks: Rice with Mushrooms, Cuttlefish and Artichokes
This month posting has been intentionally slow, but this post is unintentionally late — we had a prolonged internet outage, but service is back now, so I can tell you about this month's Daring Cooks Challenge. This month's host...
Xi'an: More from the Muslim Quarter
Over the course of our time in Xi'an, we failed at most of the things we tried to do: getting off buses at the right stop, arriving at museums before closing time, buying pants, and biking around the city...
Kyoto and Nara
Kyoto is in most ways a very average large Japanese city. Bulky, gray buildings and power lines dominate the skyline and malls and subways bustle with commerce and traffic. Even Gion, the famed geisha district, is, aside for a...
Tsumago
Tsumago began as a post town, developing around a core of facilities for travelers between Tokyo and Kyoto. After it was bypassed by the railway, it turned to tourism to restore some of its former prosperity, and now you...
Takayama and Nozawa Onsen
From Fukuoka, we headed into the mountains, and spring turned back to a chilly drizzle. In Takayama, the sun, breaking through the clouds, left the blacks and whites of the Meiji-era buildings sharp and gleaming, their contrast heightened by...
Seoul
From Denpassar, we took a red eye flight to Seoul. (You know that you've been traveling a long time when a red eye seems like a good night's sleep.) Going straight from Bali to Seoul was a refreshing shock....
Ubud
Bali is lush. The rustling waves of emerald rice fields are crested with frothing fronds of palm, and the stones of the temples are hidden by thick green moss. Everywhere are brilliant blue bumbling flies the size of your...
Jakarta and Yogyakarta
Perhaps it is fitting that as we travel through Java, visiting the ancient Hindu Prambanan and Buddhist Borobudur, I am reading The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen's account of a trek though the remote Nepalese mountains, and his spiritual experiences...
Ko Phi Phi and Phuket
For us, Ko Phi Phi was a little vacation from the more cultural tourism we've generally been practicing. With no historical landmarks or museums, just pure natural beauty, we were happy to give ourselves over to a different kind...
Chiang Mai and Pai
We were lucky enough to visit Chiang Mai on a Sunday, and unaware of the market that fills the old city's streets on that evening, we were surprised to find it sprouting beneath our feet as we went out...
Sapa and Hanoi
Sapa is a town high in the mountains in the northwest of Vietnam, just over the border from China. It is very popular with tourists, since, like Yuanyang, it is surrounded by beautiful terraced fields studded with traditional ethnic...
