Dessert

  • Lille the Eurostar stop no one gets off at

    We decided to go to Lille as our only French city to visit on this trip due to it’s proximity to Belgium and Netherlands. Only thing we knew about Lille was that it’s one of the stops on Eurostar between…

  • dieting in belgium: waffles, chocolates and fries

    what brought us to belgium?  well for starters, the food… i thought i knew so much about junk food but my years of eating like crap taught me nothing. waffles – maybe the most famously linked food to the belgians…

  • misfiring on all cylinders in riga

    we’re entering our 7th month of being on the road and at the risk of jinxing our future travels, i have to say that we’ve been rolling pretty good over the last few months.  we’ve had our share of hardships…

  • france in pictures: downtime in the quiet city of lille

    france was the first country east of the atlantic that i visited and it only felt right to revisit it during this trip.  we stopped by the northwest city of lille.  we got lots of downtime thanks to a holiday…

  • how zagreb stole our hearts in 72 hours

    we only spent two and a half days in zagreb and although it isn’t a large city, the days flew right by.  by this point we had spent nearly two weeks in croatia moving from the south to the northwest…

  • The Real Pastel de Nata

    Since our sampling of the most famous Portuguese tarts in Macau, we of course had to try them in their native land. They are known as pastel de nata and we ate a lot of them all for the sake…

  • first 24 hours in lisbon

    jojo: what do i like? -the thought of the original egg tart finding its way into my mouth at some point over the next 7 days -almost have our next 4-6 weeks of our travels planned out which include seeing…

  • chocolate con churros

    we spent a week saying no to churros in korea, of all places, and set foot to try out this local dish so the last time i’ve had a churro was at taco bell about 20 years ago, a far…

  • shaved ice, ice baby

    ah desserts.  everyone’s favourite crutch to fall back on to make themselves feel better about themselves before they can go back to hating themselves.  in the continent where desserts run wild, taiwanese desserts are more fruit-centric, refreshing and can be…