But For the Sky

Month: May 2012

  • Crabs, Pepper, and Crumbling French Mansions: It’s What Cambodia Does

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    Back home in Washington DC, one of our favorite summertime treats is to head toward the Chesapeake Bay and spend a day eating Maryland blue crabs until our stomachs are stuffed. So when we learned that there was a city called Kep on the eastern end of Cambodia’s coast whose waters were teeming with crabs,…

  • Phnom Penh and Cambodia’s Sordid Past

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    We found Phnom Penh to be a charmer: tons of wide and clean green spaces, precisely executed temples, palaces, and monuments (none of which we toured!), a pretty riverfront, eco-friendly boutiques, and tons of restaurants, cafes, and bars to satisfy a wide range of tastes. We cannot emphasize how clean the sidewalks and parks were;…

  • Weekly Twitter Updates

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    Heading to #Hanoi on Wed., then motorbiking in NE #Vietnam for 6 days! Very excited. Hope we can each handle a 125cc scooter. Amateurs! # While N America celebrates Cinqo de Mayo, pretending Corona isn't crap for a day, we're gonna celebrate Buddha's bday! Now, to find a party! # It's weird: we only couchsurfed…

  • Yum: Durian Fruit

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    Claudia
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    This oversized grenade of a fruit is a love/hate affair. It has a nasty reputation for smelling like trash, but durian fans are willing to overlook its scent’s peculiar similarity to dumpster air in order to enjoy the sweet, rich, custard-like meat. Our introduction to the fruit was in ice cream format in Myanmar, where…

  • Yum: Khmer Cooking Class

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    Claudia
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    We didn’t get the chance to take a cooking class in Thailand due to the craziness of the Songkran celebrations, so we signed up for the next best thing: a Khmer (Cambodian) cooking class in Siem Reap. It was the perfect break from temple-hopping during the middle of the steamy hot day. We weren’t sure…

  • Siem Reap: The Final Push

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    We gather all our patience, attention, and–yes–courage for the final push. It’s not going to be easy: slogging through the damp and dimly-lit passageways; pulling ourselves up the mountainous formations, the sun beating down hard on our backs. It’s like the final three miles of a marathon (or the final three miles of a three-mile…

  • Yum: Bangkok’s Street Food

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    Claudia
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    The great thing about eating in Bangkok is you never have to look very hard for delicious food. There are stands and makeshift restaurants on every street corner selling all kinds of yummy snacks, from the ubiquitous and filling pad thai to roasted crickets to coconut-based desserts. Here is a sampling of the food we…