Travels with a Gourmet

a food lover's travels, memorable meals, culinary trials and gastronomic experiences

Our long journey home had one more overnight stay, this time in Jakarta where we stayed at an apartment in the luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel in Pacific Place.  Good thing that the mall is connected to the hotel so all we had to do was walk over and have a quick Chinese dinner.  After another long …

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2011 has been my year of travel.  I have never been on a plane this much ever.  There were trips to new places – Bangkok and Beijing, a trip to my favorite city – Paris, trips to visit family – Buenos Aires and Las Vegas, several trips to see the doctor – Singapore, trips to …

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My first ever visit to Jakarta was just for 48 hours to renew our passports.  I had heard many things about Jakarta but one thing kept getting mentioned – the unbelievable traffic jams.  I was expecting the worst but was sort of surprised when we did get there as Jakarta reminded me of Manila, except …

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