Hi there! Pickle Deli Square is a collection of my experiences living, eating, and traveling the world. Currently an expat based in Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
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Amazingly, in the 3 days I spent in Sydney, I only ate Asian food. From banh mi to boba, the city has it all...
I signed up for one at the Sydney Seafood School, part of the Sydney Fish Market...
Continuing on from Singapore to Sydney on Singapore Airlines, with only one meal on a 7 hr 30 min flight...
Flying from Bangkok (BKK) to Sydney (SYD), I had a stopover in Singapore (SIN) since I was flying Singapore Airlines...
Since mainstream tourism has flourished in Cambodia, and for a longer period of time than in Laos, there are a lot of attractive accommodation options...
Laos in particular has a lack of big international hotels, which makes it a ripe place for charming boutique hotels...
In Southeast Asia, you can find the same international chains in most countries, as you can in the US and Europe. But there also are a lot of "boutique" choices, offering unique style at a very good value usually...
Phnom Penh has an urban landscape similar to many other SE Asian cities, with French influences, densely packed apartment buildings with shops on the ground floor, few sidewalks. On the other hand, it has a lot of unique character, with many modern buildings from the 60s in particular...
There are only three letters you need to remember for eating in Siem Reap: K, F, and C...
One of my favorite things at the temples around Siem Reap were the wall carvings...
I really enjoyed these stone carvings of animals with splayed teeth. Yes, I think they're cute...
Flying Lao Airlines again from Vientiane, Laos to Siem Reap, Cambodia, with a stopover in Pakse, Laos...
A big fan of Vietnamese bahn mi, I was super excited to try the baguette sandwiches of Laos...
The eating scene in Vientiane is much better than in Luang Prabang. Tourists are fewer here, and while there are a lot of foreigners still, a lot of them are in the diplomatic or NGO community who have money to spend and are potential repeat customers...
There are a few restaurants in Luang Prabang that offer cooking classes, and I just signed up for the one at Tamnak Lao...
The most stylish villagers I came across in my tour of northern Laos, even more than the hipster Tai Dam and the amusing Yao women with their pink yarn boas, were the Lanten.
