travels

Operation Pho Noodle Soup in Sunny Dunny

September 10, 2011

While I was in Scotland visiting Scotch’s parents, my father-in-law (FIL) wanted to learn more about Chinese and Vietnamese cooking. Being avid readers of my blog (they are so sweet and supportive!), he mentioned that he was very keen on learning how to make Pho – the Vietnamese rice noodle soup – that he had [...]

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Re-uniting with Scotch in Scotland

September 9, 2011

Summers in Dubai can be difficult for many Dubai dads as their wives and kids abandon them for cooler climates where the children can play and run around outdoors without worry of heat exhaustion and where the moms aren’t drenched in sweat within minutes of stepping out of air-conditioned homes. Wee Scotch and I have [...]

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Ginger and Scotch Clams with Asian Basil

September 3, 2011

The sun is shining brightly through blue skies today and there are a few clouds but no storm nor hurricane sighting. Hoping Wee Scotch and I will finally make it onto our flight to Scotland tonight. I had a nice surprise yesterday. While Skyping with Scotch, he revealed that he had bought a last-minute ticket from [...]

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Mom’s Garden and Vietnamese Kitchen

September 1, 2011

My annual summer visit to my parents in NY and to escape the scorching Dubai heat is coming to an end. It was supposed to have ended last Saturday but Hurricane Irene extended it for another week. So Wee Scotch and I had one more week of spending quality time with my parents. One more [...]

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Hurricane Irene – Blackouts and Being Left Behind in NYC

August 30, 2011

Scotch and I didn’t pay our Dubai electricity bill for over 8 months and inevitably our electricity was cut off. This happened just a few months ago. We did make a few attempts to pay our bills so it wasn’t from complete lack of trying. It’s just that the Dubai online payment system would time-out at the [...]

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Prelude to Roatan

August 25, 2011

My final post on Roatan takes us back to the beginning… Have you ever found yourself in a position to renew your passport in, oh, a couple hours and it’s the FRIDAY AFTERNOON before your Saturday morning flight? Or found out while checking-in to your flight that your name on your plane ticket has been [...]

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What We Did in Roatan (besides dive)

August 25, 2011

It’s ironic that living in the Middle East – where there are closer destinations to go diving and bodies of water I’ve never been to but are high on my bucket list – that I still ended up at a dive destination in the Caribbean where I’ve done almost all my diving. But as I [...]

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What We Ate in Roatan

August 22, 2011

Whew! That last post on diving in Roatan was more time-intensive than I had expected with all the underwater photo edits while relearning Photoshop. But it brought back great memories of my trip and how much I love love LOVE to dive. Now, allow me to direct your attention from underwater photo gawking to my [...]

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