This is spot on, but I’m sure a number of women were nonetheless complicit in this shit.

“how” was autocorrect for “hk” btw

Also it’s tough when they relocate. I don’t know bkk the way I know sing, how, kl and georgetown. I could sooner find my way to the good good in those places if they left than I can in BKK. Bkk still is one of the most confusing and difficult to navigate “as a local would” places in Asia for me.

Pardon me? Corruption? In southeast Asia? Why I never.

Happened in Hong Kong, happened to a lesser extent in Singapore. I know thighland is different, but all my bkk peeps are telling me the street vendors are being visibly pushed out.

I am trying, so so hard.

This is correct.

You are missing out.

Also if you ever go to the Philippines, try Banana ketchup. It’s so weird and so good...

OK, let’s not shit on ketchup too much. For one, despite being an overused sugar-bomb, I can’t deny my American roots and I love it. For two, it’s story is fascinating, by all accounts it is derived from good ol’ fashioned fish sauce.

Look, I am a fucking ninja in the kitchen. I can pull off French, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Viet, Malay and a whole bunch of fusion dishes (and yes, I rinse my rice)... but to my everlasting shame, I cannot make rice with any level of consistency and thus pride.

Ughhh, these fucking uppity school systems and their pervasive concern trolling. It’s fucking obnoxious. Kids are dirty, and weird, and odd, and do a lot of things rich white PTA members would find uncouth.

It’s like, one set of extra clothes. Should girls not play sports then because that requires more clothes? C’mon.

Honestly, having spent a lot of time in places where uniforms are the norm (and provided by the state where financial stress can be demonstrated), I’ve come around to this idea.

Probably was trolling, but I’m glad you responded the way you did. You never know.

Probably, but it’s cool. Fight trolls with facts and figures. Give them the links, and do little else. If in fact they’re not a troll they’ll read them. If they are, you didn’t engage. Win win.

RIP BKK streetfood. Glad I got to try it as often as I did.

Fuckin’ eh right. When I first moved to Asia I had a bit of an issue with the skin texture (no longer though), but what knocked me out was the rice. DAT RICE.

UNLESS, you’re cooking it with coconut milk.

Yeah I do too. The Crooked Media guys have all gone on record as saying he was a genuinely good doctor that treated all of them at one point or another and they have nothing but good things to say about him as a person and a physician.