Mar, 2023

Nothing else but words

Mar 19, 2023rai.montaigne.io

A return to the North (Chiang Mai, Thailand)

Mar 5, 2023rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2023

New year’s ritual in Japan

Jan 1, 2023rai.montaigne.io

Dec, 2022

The waiting room cat at Choshi (Japan)

Dec 30, 2022rai.montaigne.io

The neighbour (Saigon)

Dec 22, 2022rai.montaigne.io

The land of million elephants (Lao)

Dec 20, 2022rai.montaigne.io

A new hiding place in Vientiane (Lao)

Dec 16, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2022

A week in Mangalore (India)

Nov 19, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Remembering the cutest bookseller (Burma)

Nov 12, 2022rai.montaigne.io

For a free giraffe (Saigon)

Nov 1, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2022

The Long Bar at Raffles Hotel (Singapore)

Oct 20, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Jul, 2022

Music from a lost age (Cambodia)

Jul 28, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Holland Village (Singapore)

Jul 22, 2022rai.montaigne.io

Dec, 2021

Travelogues and travels (Vietnam)

Dec 2, 2021rai.montaigne.io

Postage stamps (Saigon)

Dec 1, 2021rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2021

Sort of Koreantown in Singapore

Oct 20, 2021rai.montaigne.io

Sep, 2021

The bus to Malaysia map

Sep 29, 2021rai.montaigne.io

Feb, 2021

A certain city called iPoh (Malaysia)

Feb 2, 2021rai.montaigne.io

The little phone (Vietnam)

Feb 2, 2021rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2020

Favourite bookstores in South East Asia

Oct 2, 2020rai.montaigne.io

Jun, 2020

Searching for Chicken Rice in Hainan

Jun 11, 2020rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2019

All those wars and revolutions (Hanoi)

Nov 14, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2019

Travels with the Korean fish

Oct 16, 2019rai.montaigne.io

The precious (Saigon)

Oct 2, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Aug, 2019

Cindy and banh beo (Saigon)

Aug 12, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Apr, 2019

Is there an Ahp inside? (Cambodia)

Apr 30, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2019

The kitten that rescued us (Saigon)

Mar 19, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2019

The hiding place in Bangkok

Jan 9, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Hello stinky tofu (Taiwan)

Jan 2, 2019rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2018

I am a cat and I love your city (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Nov 10, 2018rai.montaigne.io

Feb, 2018

Okroshka in coastal Vietnam

Feb 20, 2018rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2018

Came for the ghosts, stayed back for the view (Saigon)

Jan 11, 2018rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2017

A new Korean idol (Saigon)

Nov 30, 2017rai.montaigne.io

Aug, 2017

Always wander into the alley in Saigon

Aug 17, 2017rai.montaigne.io

May, 2017

All you have to do is exist (Saigon)

May 9, 2017rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2017

The Turtle lake in Saigon

Mar 5, 2017rai.montaigne.io

Dec, 2016

A face in the crowd (Hanoi)

Dec 16, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2016

Man’s greatest enemy

Nov 23, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2016

Surviving a shave (Saigon)

Oct 22, 2016rai.montaigne.io

May, 2016

Takoyaki laments (Saigon)

May 20, 2016rai.montaigne.io

The cutest bookseller in the world (Burma)

May 4, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Shocking Pink (Burma)

May 4, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Apr, 2016

Down by the Mekong delta (Can Tho, Vietnam)

Apr 12, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2016

Exploring ethnic enclaves in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Mar 1, 2016rai.montaigne.io

Sep, 2015

An odd god (Cambodia)

Sep 17, 2015rai.montaigne.io

Jul, 2015

The love of free food (Malaysia)

Jul 1, 2015rai.montaigne.io

May, 2015

Sleep (rant)

May 15, 2015rai.montaigne.io

Apr, 2015

The raid (Johor, Malaysia)

Apr 28, 2015rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2014

The reader (Saigon)

Mar 14, 2014rai.montaigne.io

May, 2013

The thing that flows in your blood over here (Indonesia)

May 27, 2013rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2011

The caravanserai (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Nov 21, 2011rai.montaigne.io

Nov, 2009

An afternoon in Hoi An

Nov 28, 2009rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2008

Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia)

Jan 2, 2008rai.montaigne.io

Apr, 2007

The stick men of Chongqing (China)

Apr 23, 2007rai.montaigne.io

Apr, 2005

88 and 521, bye bye and I love you

Apr 15, 2005rai.montaigne.io

Why I love Burma

Apr 9, 2005rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2005

3D nudes in Chengdu

Jan 5, 2005rai.montaigne.io

We were playing war games

Jan 5, 2005rai.montaigne.io

Oct, 2004

Ibn Battuta and nostalgia (Singapore)

Oct 2, 2004rai.montaigne.io

Aug, 2004

To make a little girl smile (Thailand)

Aug 12, 2004rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2004

Sometimes, it is good to tell a lie (China)

Mar 11, 2004rai.montaigne.io

Feb, 2004

Special feelings in Chengdu

Feb 17, 2004rai.montaigne.io

Jan, 2004

The lantern city (China)

Jan 4, 2004rai.montaigne.io

Sep, 2003

Under the deep blue Mongolian sky

Sep 27, 2003rai.montaigne.io

Mutton soup in the ancient captial (China)

Sep 20, 2003rai.montaigne.io

Jun, 2003

The dancer (Korea)

Jun 23, 2003rai.montaigne.io

Taking the wrong bus (Korea)

Jun 20, 2003rai.montaigne.io

For a glimpse of Burma

Jun 15, 2003rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2003

Chairman Mao was a good boy (Changsha, China)

Mar 8, 2003rai.montaigne.io

Dec, 2002

Close shave in Shanghai

Dec 15, 2002rai.montaigne.io

Mar, 2002

The island of mystery and magic (The Philippines)

Mar 16, 2002rai.montaigne.io

Dec, 2001

The Áo dài calendar (Hanoi)

Dec 23, 2001rai.montaigne.io

Time to go back (Lao)

Dec 12, 2001rai.montaigne.io

The Vietnamese dub (Nha Trang, Vietnam)

Dec 10, 2001rai.montaigne.io

Sep, 2001

Silly poems in high Tibet

Sep 12, 2001rai.montaigne.io

Jun, 2001

I want to stay (Burma)

Jun 10, 2001rai.montaigne.io

May, 2001

Across the Irrawaddy (Burma)

May 4, 2001rai.montaigne.io