Food and Travel in South East Asia

The Best Things About Travelling in Vietnam Banh Mi Back in Melbourne, we were always big fans of Vietnamese rolls, whether it was vietnam roast chicken rolls with pockets of eye-watering chillies from Jenny’s Hot Breads in Camberwell, pate-filled deliciousness from Johnston street, pork meatball...

After six months, 6 countries, 540 meals (a very conservative estimate) and a number of mad dashes for the loo, its time to talk about the best food in South-East Asia. The best part of travelling is eating.  I mean it.  We may not set off with this as the reason for our travels, but time and again...

To travel from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh/whatever seemed easy enough. We had planned to splurge a bit and fly the short distance, after all it should only cost $50 or even less right? Wrong. For some reason the route between Saigon and it’s close neighbour Phnom Penh is ridiculously expensive, especially...

Video: Vietnam, a few seconds a day. Our latest travel-mash-video thing is done and dusted. Check out our month of travel as we travel from the top to bottom of Vietnam.After spending 3 months in Thailand and Laos, we jumped on a place and headed for Vietnam, to spend a month backpacking, drinking...

Last on our list for Vietnam was Saigon – it might be called Ho Chi Minh by the government, on maps, and by those in the north, but its still Saigon to the people that live there.  I would call it Box Hill north.  Arriving in Saigon felt pretty good, we had covered a lot of territory in our month...