Prepare yourself to drool over these 41 meals, each featuring mouthwatering photos, details, and where you can eat it.
I've also included some of my personal travel eating tips and answered some of your top questions... like "Mark, how do you make money to travel?".
I was exploring the ancient narrow lanes of Varanasi, searching for something delicious to eat, when a man smiled and cheerfully invited me to his restaurant from across the lane. He was serving something known as round roti, more commonly…
Varanasi, India, is by all means one of the most fascinating and ancient cities I’ve ever visited; Nearly everything you see, hear, smell, and taste is in some way intriguing. It is the most sacred Hindu city in India, a place…
Tucked into the peaceful green district of Dusit, is a Bangkok culinary gem known as Krua OV (ครัว OV) restaurant. They serve mostly amazing Thai curries, but they are also particularly famous for their royal Thai food, and their Khao…
Drying Fish in Sri Lanka Fish is very common in Sri Lankan food, and one way to preserve it is by drying it. Along the beach in Negombo, Sri Lanka, there were lots of fish dehydrating in the hot sun.
Kanchanaburi is a province located in western Thailand, bordering Myanmar, and packed with lush forest and rivers. A few years ago I spent some time in northern Kanchanburi province, and thoroughly enjoyed hanging out and exploring Sangkhlaburi, but I didn’t have…
In mid June 2013, I was invited to attend a travel blog conference in Bangkok organized by Digital Innovation Asia. While attending the conference I was put up in Amari Watergate, a luxurious hotel located smack dab in the middle…
Within the lanes of Varanasi, I discovered a small stall with a man serving a delightful snack known as baati chokha, or round roti. Theses little balls of dough about the size of a golf ball were filled with garam…
Non Smiling But Friendly Man This guy may look mean in the photo, but he’s the one who politely asked me if I’d take his photo in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Similar to the waiter at the best Indian restaurant in…
Gangtok, situated in the Sikkim state of India, hardly feels like you’re in India at all. It’s clean, peaceful, quiet orderly, and even its population is Nepali in majority. Sitting on top of a mountain and surrounded by the Himalayas, it’s a…
Before visiting India, I can’t say I had ever eaten Tibetan food. And when I traveled to India, little did I realize I’d be dining on some traditional Tibetan dishes, but I did! The province of Sikkim is located in Northeastern India in…
While in Gangtok, India, I decided to eat at a restaurant known as Taste of Tibet, located right along the MG Marg walking street. Gangtok, in the Sikkim province, is very near Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal, so there’s plenty of…
90 Year Old Smoker Just a short walk from the old smiling lady, was this man who could barely speak a word of either Chinese or English. He sat quietly smiling and taking periodic inhales of his 4 foot long…
“These two cute Bangladeshi boys approached me while I was wandering around Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. They loved having their photo taken.” Mark’s Note: I first met Sam and Audrey in Seoul, South Korea, last year. We found a traditional Korean…
It’s often in circumstances when you’re not searching, that you find exactly what you’re looking for. Same goes for good restaurants. After a 4 hour zigzagging mountain jeep ride from New Jalpaigur to Darjeeling, we were hungry. And so hungry…
In this video, I’ll show you one of the best local restaurants in all of Darjeeling, India. The food was so fresh and delicious, that I went back numerous times in a row to be fed at this truly motherly…
