The Good Manner: Advice on Asia from WoWasis’ Pa Farang Today’s dilemma: am I being set up by a Thai lady in Macau? Dear Pa Farang, I’m Korean-American, but work in HK and frequent Macau saunas once in a while. I don’t even look at the Chinese girls. My eyes shift directly to Thai girls […]
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WoWasis visits Sri Lanka’s mountain tea houses
Tea is an essential part of Sri Lankan culture, and is their second leading export commodity, behind textiles. Sri Lanka’s hill country is liberally dotted with terraced tea plantations, and many of them have wonderful tea houses right at the road side where you can relax, drink their teas, and enjoy the mountain atmosphere. And […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis touring product review: the incredible Booster Pac ES2500 auto battery charger
Here at WoWasis, we’ve got off road vehicles, sports cars that go on rallyes, you name it. We’re often in the middle of nowhere, and occasionally the car battery runs out. We’ve always carried booster cables, but what do you do if there are no other vehicles around to give you a jump? If you’re […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bangkok street stall thugs endangering pedestrians and shop owners alike
One of the most common complaints we at WoWasis hear from people living near the intersection of Sukhumvit Soi 3 is the illegal proliferation of stalls selling the usual tourist “junk,” running from So 3 to roughly Soi 15. The stalls are on both sides of the sidewalk, making the sidewalk virtually unusable for foot […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis travel clothing review: a Panama hat that’s packable and great looking
Here at WoWasis, we use the durable T3 Tilley Hat for just about everything we do in the bush, desert, jungle, and forest. But sometimes we need something a touch more fashionable when we’re wearing a light-colored summer suit in hot, tropical climates. And we can’t carry around a hat box, so we need a hat […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Big Business in Thailand’… unveiling the mystery of Thailand’s business families
So you’re a Westerner who wants to open a large business in Thailand. You don’t really know the lay of the land, but you find that things keep getting in the way. Could be bureaucratic red tape, “tea money,” or even worse, you’re stalled and you don’t know why. Could you have run afoul of […]
Read the rest of this entry »What’s with my Thai broken toilet seat?
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: My new Thai broken toilet seat Dear Pa Farang, Greetings from California. I go to Thailand several times a year, and am proud to say that I’ve plumbed a Thai toilet hose into my bathroom here in the States. Recently, at a […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘A New History of Taiwan’ by Hung Chien-Chau
Noted Taiwan newspaperman Hung Chien-Chau (also known by his English name, Joe Hung) has admirably faced up to the daunting task of writing a history of his country in A New History of Taiwan (2011, ISBN 978-986-86637-3-2), an updated edition of his 368 page book of 2000. Hung is a veteran journalist who serves as […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis product review: Garmin nuvi 1350 LMT GPS Navigator
Here at WoWasis, we were early adopters of GPS technology, and probably the first travel site to include GPS coordinates for many of the out of the way and hard to find places to which we travel. But our trusty Garmin GPS III Plus, which we’d had for 13 years had been all over the […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Eye of the Times: Centennial Images of Taiwan’
Taiwan is a country richly documented in photography. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, the Taiwan Fine Arts Museum in Taipei in May of 2011 launched a photography retrospective documenting the many facets of Taiwan through historical and contemporary photography. The extraordinary richness of the exhibition is documented in its […]
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