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Visiting the Gardens by the Bay's Supertree for the first time, it was actually pretty good https://i.imgur.com/CI49hAP.jpg[/img] View was really nice I did enjoy it so I decided I'd come again soon

Visited the Singapore Airlines lounge in Suvarnabhumi Airport last Friday while waiting for TG flight to Singapore. I always like this lounge because its got very good food. The bar Cheese platter Delicious chicken porridge Nasi lemak and eggs Condiments for nasi lemak My nasi lemak breakfast Pork ribs Bolognaise Spaghetti Seafood tomyam Brocolli with mushrooms Singapore style chicken rice Chicken rice Thai desserts

Woke up this morning saw the kitchen still have left over rice so decided to make breakfast - Egg Fried Rice with Gravy Yummy breakfast (brunbch)

I recently saw this near my home. Dangerous? But I guess not much of choice for them. Wish them safe

Coming back this time I found that there are many of this coffee shop around - Bacha [img]https://i.imgur.com/QQL3SUW.jpg[/img] So I thought I try - this is at Takashimaya basement 1 My coffee The sugar so beautiful Nice For her Our pasteries

I visited Singapore last week and had a great time there here are some of the meals I had Had lunch on the second day there at ION foodcourt My goodness I have not eaten this for so many years Fishball noodles and fried stuffs Love the chili sauce

Now this is "peasant" food I just had for lunch today with 2 colleagues Our Thai lunch at a countryside shop Yam pla kapong - sardines Thai salad Khana moo - kale stir fry with sliced pork Krapow moo sup - minced pork stir fry with Thai basil Khai jeow moo sup - minced pork omelette Tomyam kung - shrimp tomyam soup My rice with egg

Nathong Terrace Bar and Restaurant heres the google map link - https://goo.gl/maps/1tGGaQDgVcre8WWu8

Visited a rebuild restaurant in Bangkok known as Nathong. Over the Covid period the owners too the opportunity of shutdown to rebuild the entire restaurant. Like to share some photos here It is now known as Nathong Terrace Bar and Restaurant heres the google map link - https://goo.gl/maps/1tGGaQDgVcre8WWu8 Starter - Miang Kham Bean salad Grouper tomyam Fried omlette oysters Inside is big and fresh oysters and beansprouts Seabass deep fried with fish sauce Grilled giant river prawns Seabass baked in salt Thai dessert Mango sticky rice dessert

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Tea-Leaves/In-Thailand-there-is-life-beyond-the-capital?utm_campaign=GL_asia_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=NA_newsletter&utm_content=article_link&del_type=1&pub_date=20221123123000&seq_num=23&si=44594 In Thailand, there is life beyond the capital In an over-centralized country, not all roads should lead to Bangkok A garden with a green wall tucked into forested hills some 80 kilometers southeast of Bangkok. (Photo by Dominic Faulder) DOMINIC FAULDERNovember 23, 2022 11:00 JST When I unexpectedly got stuck in Bangkok during the failed April Fool's Day coup of 1981, it was still the only real city in Thailand -- a kingdom of villages. Chiang Mai, the "rose of the north," ranked second, but was really no more than a large, sleepy provincial town. In Thai, the capital has the world's longest place name, according to Guinness World Records, beginning Krung Thep Maha Nakhon. It was not just the seat of government, but the nation's industrial and business hub and main port. Oil refineries were close to the port, and refined petrochemicals were transported upcountry by rail -- a disruptive feature of this fascinating but dysfunctional city of some 15 million that continues to this day. The Thai capital, a tawdry "Venice of the East," had its charms but was essentially a sleepy backwater afflicted by a plague of heat-absorbing concrete shophouses, and virtually bereft of libraries and bookshops. The American travel writer Paul Theroux, visiting at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, described it unkindly as a "flattened anthill." That has changed. Bangkok has become rich and sophisticated, and has been spared permanent gridlock by the most spectacular and ingenious mass transit infrastructure in Southeast Asia. But the city remains frenetic and dysfunctional. Some middle-class families virtually live in their cars doing school runs. About 10 years ago, my wife and I decided to quit the city for forested hills some 80 kilometers along the Gulf of Thailand. With no buildings in sight, the main view across our field is a small, wooded hill that is home to hundreds of exceptionally promiscuous macaques. In the drier periods of the year, the monkeys descend in tribes upon our village and shred unguarded plastic rubbish bags. Top: Bangkok is famous for some of the longest traffic lights in the world. Bottom: Much quieter scenes can be found surprisingly close to the capital. (Photos by Dominic Faulder) There are snakes of every kind in the undergrowth, including cobras. One night I returned late to find a 3-meter reticulated python draped along the front gate. It eyeballed me through the windscreen for 15 minutes before doubling back on itself and departing noiselessly along the garden wall. But this life is not really as "jungly" as it sounds. Anyone who has lived in Bangkok will have tales of pythons in the laundry and various lizards in the cupboards. Our home sits in the heart of Chonburi province and is connected to Bangkok by two motorways built to service the Eastern Seaboard, Thailand's industrial heartland. That was developed in the 1980s to drag the economy beyond commodities and tourism, and is integral to what has long been the largest conurbation in Southeast Asia. Larger visitors to the garden sometimes need to be taken in hand. (Photo by Dominic Faulder) Chonburi is a full employment province, and home to Laem Chabang, the country's biggest port, with refineries close by. Further down the coast in Rayong province, there is further industrialization at Map Ta Phut. This whole stretch is the gateway to the Eastern Economic Corridor, essentially a 21st-century version of the Eastern Seaboard. Some foreign missionaries and artists used to reside upcountry. A few intrepid souls enrobed in remote monasteries, and there is a dwindling residue of U.S. Vietnam War veterans who married locally and never went home. But the number of foreigners living outside Bangkok used to be minuscule before Thailand started to appear in global lists of the best countries in the world to consider for retirement, before its highway capacity doubled in the 1990s, before its health care system improved exponentially, and before the retail revolution of the 1990s started wiping out obsolescent mom and pop stores with breathtaking ranges of local and imported produce. Top: One never need feel lonely in the Thai countryside. Bottom: Mowing the lawn takes on a whole new meaning. (Photos by Dominic Faulder) Today, I can get to central Bangkok in under 90 minutes when necessary, and to the main airport in just half that time. My regular trips into the business district are quicker than those for many Bangkok residents. A high-speed rail link is under construction down the Eastern Seaboard that will bind together all the main population centers, ports and airports. So life in Thailand's supposed boondocks is in many respects far more livable and efficient than in choked Bangkok with its questionable air quality. Country living should be promoted, but successive Thai governments, mired in essentially 19th-century thinking, continue to see decentralization as a threat, and deny all but one of the country's 77 provinces (Bangkok) the right to elect their own governors. As long as all roads lead to Bangkok, so will the kingdom's problems. Dominic Faulder is a Nikkei Asia associate editor.

So this is Taiwan's HSR (High Speed Rail). We were taking this train back to Tao Yuan Station and then off to Tao Yuan Airport Comfortable and spacious Serving drinks and snacks So the above are the last photos of this trip. Hope you like them.

My last meal with my suppliers was on Wednesday afternoon lunch. We went to a chicken restaurant located in a secluded place and a tiny lane, easy to miss it if not for this sign But it looks new The inside The 7 of us booked a private room Chicken glutinous rice (has to pre order one day in advance) Simply heavenly with all the sesame oil and rice wine used in the cooking (I must learn now to do this) Garlic chicken with chinese herbs Meesua (rice fine noodle) in chicken brooth Local green mushrooms Fried chicken with salted egg Palm flower Tofu fried The spread Fried fish Very traditional Taiwanese village food

So this the breakfast that I have been dining at past 3 mornings. Overly huge spread this hotel's breakfast it has everything. My braised pork rice (肉燥飯) today before I check-out from the hotel

So this is what Taiwanese food is all about Stopped at a stall and ordered these Fried oyster with egg and sauce ($3) Thick soup with pork ($1.80) Simply delicious all of them Walked more down the street found another shop Making dumplings My sauces Spring onion cake, amazing Clam clear soup Dumplings Chicken Dinner (total $15.70) This is what I'd call Taiwan food

Ok this post will not make justice to local food nevertheless here it is a dinner at the Kaohsiung city's Marriot Hotel. I've never sat on such a humongous table (for 10) like this in my life Has 2 motors for the center turntable But its pretty The cutleries Very high-end Narumi bone-china The dishes The special drink for dinner Starter - tofu and chives Starter - pickle Starter - bamboo shoots The drink We started with a appetizer consisting of 4 items - prawns, fungus & jellyfish, mullet roe, tofu Creamy soup that has prawns, scallops and white fungus in it And then its the lobster with curry sauce Braised wagyu cheek Beef simply melts in your mouth Mixed vegetables and prawn Grouper with thick rice noodle Fruits Almond cold soup with egg white We had a wonderful dinner certainly however these are not Taiwanese food at all. If looking at what Taiwanese food is all about look at the next video below

Good morning everybody. This 40 seconds time lapse video taken from my hotel room window yesterday from 4.15pm to 8.15pm (4hrs)

The food at this mutton restaurant Freshly boiled mutton Mutton stir fry with bitter gourd Mutton stir fry with spring onions Meesua (fine rice noodle) Mutton stir fry with pineapple Baked mutton Mutton herbal soup Mutton vermicelli Boiled prawns The spread

As this is a very short trip I had on two full days to work, Tuesday and today. So for this trip did not expect any free time for sightseeing or photos of scenery. Tomorrow morning will be on our way to Taoyuan and then back to Bangkok in the afternoon. I was in an industrial area these two days. Yesterday after the morning work the locals brought me to a local restaurant popular for serving mutton (meat from local goats).

High Speed Rail almost arriving Kaohsiung

On the first night of my stay on Monday I visited a night market Liu He Night Market

I have no idea. Anyway I have never heard of any lodging without personal toilet have you?

Grand Hi Lai (I love this hotel so I always stay here) https://goo.gl/maps/Xa3KLctDUhVrCS496

A very important thing I forgot to share at the beginning. Covid entry requirement. ZERO! Theres nothing they check and require since checking in at the Suvarnabhumi Airport to leaving the Taoyuan Airport. Only thing is you will be given a box like this: Inside contains 4 sets of covid antigen test kits which they recommend you to do 1 as soon as possible within the day of arrival and then another the next day before you leave home/hotel. You don't have to report anything at all. So its as good as "up to you". Well, being a good boy I followed and the result was

Was brought to a crab restaurant by the locals Starting drink Starters Garlic crab Squid Padi fish Spread Gourd Vegetables Tofu Last drink

Then took another taxi from Zuoying Station to the hotel. Arriving at hotel My room Harbour view Compliment