please let it be okay please let it be okay please let it be okay (and please don’t let it cost so much money to make it okay if that’s the only way to make it okay) please please please please please please please

After a weekend in Bangkok, and 3 days/3 nights in Siem Reap climbing up (and more importantly, making it safely down) Angkor Wat, this has been a journey of self discovery. The two most important discoveries I’ve made are:

1. I cannot use the internet in Cambodia without the system crashing.
2. I am probably the clumsiest person I know.

I’ll elaborate on the above at another time, when I don’t have a plane to catch in 2 minutes. I also need to give myself some time to fall down or trip or hit my head with my camera or smash my knee into something en route to my plane.

See you in a couple of hours.

The photoset is up. Not many pictures this time - I either had my hands full (of food) or was flat on my back getting massaged, so it wasn’t really my top priority. Such good food. I can’t wait to go back. Oh. And yeah, there weren’t any tanks!

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Coming to you live from Bangkok - you’d hardly believe there was a coup here.

I WANT TO SEE TANKS. Rah.

Be back in a few.

me: rahhhh. i dont understand what im learning.
me: ergo im not effectively learning anything
Ashwin: the key to learning in a controlled environment, like in university, is that you shouldn’t attempt to understand.

This so does not bode well. Hopefully it’ll clear up by Tuesday?

About a week ago, the bunny and I decided to head over to Gallery Hotel to check out Sapporo Ramen Miharu - Japanese authentic noodles.

According to CNA, Miharu uses fresh Sapporo Nishiyama noodles imported from Hokkaido - a welcome change from the only “ramen” most Singaporeans are acquainted with, i.e. Ajisen. The soup base is made from pig and chicken bones, some vegetables and brewed for hours on end to imbue the soup with the delicious flavour.

While the first spoonful of soup startled me a little with the saltiness, that flavour definitely wasn’t borne of MSG-happy chefs. Unlike other “Japanese” soups which tend to leave my mouth dry and have me crawling towards glass after glass of water, the Tonkusen Ton-Shio broth only had me craving for another bowl and immediately setting aside a date for my next visit here - that’s how good it was.

Definitely head down to Gallery Hotel and check it out. They don’t accept reservations, so just head over, write your name on the book outside the front door, and wait for them to summon you over.

Sapporo Ramen Miharu
76 Robertson Quay
#01-11 Gallery Hotel

Opening hours:
Lunch from 12 to 3pm (last order 2.45pm)
Dinner from 6 to 10pm (last order 9.45pm)

Death by marshmallows. This totally deserved its own post. (via porcorosso)