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Set inside three heritage houses with hip and uber stylish interiors, ChinaHouse is a multifaceted concept that’s hard to put into any one box.

When you continue putting this much time and effort into something, even after 30 years, it can only mean that you love what you do. Without question, the Por family LOVES making these bowls of duck koay chap.

Lok lok is a type of communal steamboat where diners sit around a table with a central pot of boiling water. A wide selection of food ranging from seafood to meats and vegetables is skewered on sticks and placed around the table.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Singapore Botanic Gardens covers an area of 74 hectares and is home to multiple themed gardens, three lakes, and a tropical rain forest.

Presented over three courses — starters, mains, and dessert — Chef Malcolm Lee aims to give diners the experience of going to Grandma’s house and being served a thoughtful sequence of lovingly cooked food. It’s an interesting concept we thought, and one that says a lot about Peranakan culture.

It was hilarious to see ourselves in all the pictures. Hamming it up more and more with each exhibit, I felt like a kid again just letting go and having a blast.

I was on a tour of Tibet when the bus suddenly pulled over to the side of the road so we could relieve ourselves. Amidst the tundra nothingness was an odd structure: a wooden platform 10 feet high with a ladder and topped with a half-wall.

How often do you come across an island you can have all to yourself for less than a hundred dollars a night? Isn’t that everyone’s dream, to own their own island?

Before stand up paddleboarding became popular, the riverboat lunch cruise was basically the only way tourists could enjoy the Loboc River. It takes you up and down the river in a floating restaurant that serves mediocre lunch and bad karaoke.

Bohol has many interesting attractions, but they’re scattered throughout the island so getting to them on public transportation takes time and planning. Which is probably why this Countryside Tour has become an essential activity to first-time travelers to Bohol. It makes it easy.