December 14, 2024
When I still lived in Hanoi, we played guess the word game over food and alcohol. I was with my group of friends, the usual ones. I badly wanted our team to win. When it was about cities, I knew it was my turn to shine. They gave me the […]
March 29, 2024
We hovered in the same artist group, but I don’t really know this person. She posted some Aachen photos and gushed out how beautiful the city was. I so happened to be in Bielefeld for my work then, so I told my partner that instead of staying in Cologne, I […]
February 21, 2023
I never thought I would see something so Asian, so unabashedly Thai, in the middle of nowhere in Berlin. But there it is, the best Thai food in Berlin. Thaipark is a weekend paradise for many Thai food lovers in this German capital. It is not a secret, but you […]
February 6, 2023
As someone who grew up in archipelagic country like the Philippines and traveled extensively around Southeast Asia, Europe, especially the Schengen region, is fascinating to me. Now living in Munich, I find it fascinating that you can be in new country for lunch and come back home for dinner. That […]