The Hotel Booking That Almost Ruined My Trip I want to tell you about a very expensive lesson I learned in Phuket. It was December. Peak season. I’d been too confident — “it’s a big island, how hard can it be to find a room” — and had not booked ahead. By 7pm on arrival […]
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A NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN: This list contains 50 dishes from 40+ countries. Some of them will require a flight. Some require a specific city. One or two require finding a specific dhaba, hawker stall, or hole-in-the-wall that has been doing one thing extraordinarily well for fifty years. All of them are worth it. Not
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The Night I Learned How Mumbai Really Works After Dark It was a Wednesday in September, around 8pm. I was standing outside a place in Lower Parel that a friend had described as “just a casual bar, you’ll be fine.” The doorman looked at my chappals, my jeans, and my face, in that order, and
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A NOTE BEFORE YOU READ: India does not have a cuisine. It has thirty-five distinct regional food cultures, each with its own spice logic, its own cooking fat, its own relationship with rice versus wheat, its own dessert vocabulary, and its own street food canon that has been perfected over centuries. This guide covers all
A NOTE BEFORE YOU START: India is not a destination. It is an experience that happens to have borders. It will overwhelm you, enchant you, frustrate you, feed you better than anywhere else on earth, and send you home fundamentally changed. This guide was written with one purpose: to get you there properly prepared, so
I didn’t expect Kerala to stay with me the way it did. I’ve done the Rajasthan circuit. I’ve navigated Bangkok solo at midnight. I’ve eaten my way through Penang and pretended to understand wine in Tuscany. But there was something about standing on the deck of a houseboat in Alleppey at 6am — mist still
