Penang, Malaysia is known for their exquisite cuisine. I didn’t come to Malaysia to partake of a burger, something I could get in the United States. I came to eat prawn mee, chicken rice, duck noodles, nasi kandoor, fish curry, and roti canai along with other epicurean wondrosities.
Yet walking down the street I was struck by a street hawker cart serving up Manchester United Burgers (click here if you don’t know who Manchester United are, and start supporting them). Could this possibly compete with the Double Hut …

Walking through the central market in Kuala Lumpur, the sign for Cute Fish Spa caught my attention.  Minutes later, I was giggling like a middle school girl, hundreds of fish were swarming around my feet.
It took a good 3 minutes of my allotted 10 to get use to the fish, slimily nibbling at my toes and eating away the dead skin.  However, as soon as I had warmed up to them, the fish started to feel truly marvelous.  Still it is one of the weirdedst feeling I have ever felt.  …

A 7 hour bus ride and a 1.5 hour ferry ride from Kuala Lumpur, and one is surrounded by lush vegetation, turquoise seas, and a relaxed island lifestyle.  Langkawi is a great place to hang out for some time to eat, see various sites, swim, and just plain relax.
There are countless places to stay, accommodating to all sorts of different budgets.  We stayed at a place called the Sweet Inn (website to come) on Cenang Beach (thought they were going to have WiFi, so committed to them for a couple …

A crowd of people, mustered under a tree, mingling, confused like ants following a hint of a trail, and unworldly Malaysian food smells, filling the air, stunning my utmost nostril.  I had to be part of it.
Approaching closer, the people were revolved around a small table, filled with about 20 of some of the most exciting and inspiring delights known to man.  I became overjoyed and excited like a child becomes ecstatic about Christmas (same feeling I got eating the Boat Noodles in Bangkok).  I thought to myself, I could …

Guest blog by Dwight Turner, Editor of In Search of Sanuk.  I’ve had the privileged of traveling, eating, volunteering, dancing, and helping others with Dwight.
There’s never been a better time to redefine what it means to vacation. The downturn in the global economy is our best chance to revolt aganst the typical, cookie-cutter vacations where we blindly spend, aloof to our effect on the places we visit. This is the idea behind Mark Wiens’ Migrationology.com which questions, “Why vacation when you you can migration?” I pondered my migration and came …

Just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, lie the famous Batu Caves.  They are a series of limestone caves surrounded by various Hindu shrines.  The Batu Caves are some of the most popular Hindu shrines outside of India.
The Thaipusam Hindu festival is held here annually.  Nearly 1.5 million people come to partake in the celebrations.  The ceremony involves offering sacrifices to the gods by climbing up the sets of stairs to the shrine at the end of the cave to give the offerings.
We arrived at Batu Caves to see a large …

Boat noodles are small bowls of noodles served up dry or with soup, bursting with with all forms of expressive flavor, sure to satisfy anyone’s taste buds. Bangkok is famous for them, and they are not to be missed and are not disappointing.  As Hungry in Bangkok suggests, “the emphasis is on the food, not the decor,” in their review of boat noodles, and my experience was quite the same (wouldn’t want it any different).
The bowls are small, consisting of 2-3 slurpy bites, forcing one to order many bowls.  I …

Thinking things couldn’t get better after seeing the famous man with his “booty shaking dance lesson” in Lumpini Park, Bangkok, we stumbled across a different sort of sport, not as much freedom, with a few more regulations, Sepan Takraw also known just as takraw.
Takraw can best be explained as volleyball without hands.  A player is only permitted to use feet, knees, chests, and heads in an attempt to return the ball to the opponents side of the net.  There are three players per side, and the top of the net …

It only took a few minutes before I was drenched in sweat, twisting, grabbing, and turning my body, balancing in ways I didn’t think were possible.  It all happened in Bangkok, Thailand, through the persuasion of my friend,  Ali Pepler who wanted to practice “hot yoga.”
The instructor (a man) at Absolute Yoga, was quite frankly a little strange, and being the only male in the room, surrounded by about 25 females, he took a slight liking to me, helping correct my stances.  I took this as a polite gesture and …

There is tourism galore in Bangkok, Thailand, but there are plenty of activities to do that are off the beaten track of the extremely worn touristic routes.
A friend of mine, Dwight Turner founder of In Search of Sanuk, promotes worthwhile humanitarian causes in and around Bangkok.  Ali Pepler and I had the privilege of accompanying Dwight on some of  the projects he promotes.
We started off touring and learning about the Bangkok Refugee Center.  Thailand does not officially recognize refugees and therefore refugees and asylum seekers are in jeopardy of status …