April 20, 2010 – Daejeon, South Korea

It’s 2am and we had not eaten our dinner yet. We ordered our first meal in a laid-back eatery.

I was adjusting myself to the new language I heard from the television when a lady knelt at the corner of our low-leveled dining table. I was overwhelmed with the number of bowls she was putting on the table.

Korean table setting is also named as Ban-sang setting and it is composed of a rice bowl alongside with side dishes. Table setting depends on whether a noodle dish or meat is to be served. It is also determined by the number of side dishes and there are 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 side dishes that can be served. We had 3 side dishes.

As customary, side dishes are shared among diners but rice and soup are served individually. Koreans, unlike other chopsticks citizens, use spoon more often. They eat rice with spoon while chopsticks are used for side dishes.

Side Dishes

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Beginning is always overwhelming

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If you have flown with Cebu Pacific, you probably have read their Smile magazine tucked in passenger seat’s pocket. This mag has a section named “Trip Journal” where simple and straight-to-the-point basic needs about dozen of cities are shared. There are also tips from frequent travelers and a few words you can use.

A number of people I know often rely on their friends who are used to managing itinerary. And a majority of them will postpone travel because they don’t know the “how” of traveling. I think in order to start off you can ask first people who have managed a travel or two (of course, people who don’t always rely on tour packages). Aside from knowing the “how” of traveling, you will also learn how to discover the real and best places in a city that tour packages usually miss out.

September 9, 2010 – Jim Thompson, Bangkok, Thailand

Our brunch was in Jim Thompson House Restaurant. I ordered a spicy chicken meal garnished with healthy veggies.

Chicken

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September 9, 2010 – Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand

A wall art displayed in Suvarnabhumi Airport. With defined strokes of lines that depicts a scene of Thai culture, this wall art was just one of many artworks of Bangkok has to offer.

Bangkok had amazed me in diverse but imaginative ways.

Wall Art

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September 9, 2010 – MBK Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Our first mall stop was in MBK Center. Also known as Mahboonkrong, MBK Center is the most visited and one of the largest shopping mall in Bangkok. It must be the first mall any shopper would think of visiting (as far as we’re discussing “tourism”).

I did a little ambush photography in MBK and it had left me with this foreigner looking at some displayed cellphone accessories.