travel + culture
In Respect to Tourism
As more and more tourists frequent the region's traditional backroads, cultural faux pas are committed left and right.
06.01.07
- Keywords
- travel,
- asia,
- karen coates
travel + culture
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Chiang Mai's secret is out: smoke. A dangerously thick blanket of smoke is smothering northern Thailand, sending thousands of people to the hospital.
05.30.07
- Keywords
- travel,
- asia,
- thailand,
- karen coates
food politics
The Bad Earth
In light of the recent pet-food and hog-farm scares, consider this: Chinese produce is about the last choice an Asian shopper will make.
05.04.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- health + science,
- produce,
- china
food + cooking
Pounding to Perfection
As I sit on a plastic chair beneath the wooden stilts of a house in Tmatboey, a woman grinds a kroeung—a quintessential Khmer spice mixture.
04.30.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- ingredients,
- cambodian,
- asian
food politics
Hot-and-Sour Steroids?
A Chinese doping expert warns that some Chinese foods are so loaded with steroids, athletes could test positive for drugs during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
03.28.07
- Keywords
- health + science,
- nutrition/Diet,
- asia,
- china,
- karen coates
travel + culture
Pepped Up and Ready to Ride
PEPY began with one idea, five fit females, five bikes, one
month, and 1,000 miles.
02.03.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- asia
travel + culture
The Right Side of Shangri-La
Unless you're in the know, you may book a room at the newly reopened Shangri-La Rasa Sayang, in Penang, without ever realizing how far the place has come.
01.15.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- hotels,
- asia
travel + culture
2006: The Year in Travel
Your most memorable trip this year? Hiking the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak and winding up on a wild-boar chase through the jungle.
12.25.06
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- the year in travel
magazine
On the Waterfront
For
locals, Halong is the center of an age-old culture that revolves entirely around the sea.
December 2006
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- travel,
- vietnam,
- asian,
- culinary culture
food + cooking
The Land of Less Than Plenty
Every Thanksgiving, I think of Ya, in her flip-flops, sweeping up rotten fruit and dirty needles on the streets of Phnom Penh.
11.23.06
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- asia,
- karen coates
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