Even if at first their gaze seems to be serious just try to smile… just try. Thus most of the time you will be warmly welcomed, bestowed good vibe and sincere interest of the old and the young, teens and middle-aged, man and woman, no matter if they work, chill, drink coffee, do sports, drive […]

Vietnamese Central Highlands smell with blooming coffee flowers. Sweet, intensive, jasmine scent. The air is filled with it and I could only feel that driving the motorbike through the plateaus bestudded with the coffee plantations. It took me immediately to my childhood, to the scorching weekend afternoons spent at the family allotment. Polish nature in […]

Chao long heo is a brownish congee rich with textures from a variety of pigs’ offal. Even though liver, heart, intestine and blood sausage might be hard to appreciate by westerners, locals find them a real treat and it is really worth giving it a try. You can find this lady and her mobile stall […]

It took only 2 days to see the side effects of the transition from 4 months of an almost fully vegetarian diet to the meat indulgence in Saigon – feeling of heaviness, mood swings, headache. I am not surprised as I literally swallowed bowls of beef pho noodles, pork-filled bun bo hue soup, crunchy banh […]

I take a seat at the dusty, dark hollow bar next to the main entrance to the Arambol Beach. Usually, it’s a very noisy place, echoing with honking but not before 8 am, when Arambol seems to be still half asleep. The only sounds I can hear now are grass broom scraping off the dusty […]