Stephenie Harrison

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Steph20

Tasting Heaven at the Gurdwara Sahib Melaka

If you only have room in your brain to know three things about me, let them be this: 1) I love costumes 2) I love surprises—and secrets!—but am terrible at keeping them myself 3) I love food
FoodMalaysia
Steph4

Moreish Muar

Some people say that in life you should follow your heart, but we say that when traveling, definitely go with your gut. It is primarily in the pursuit of food that our first stop in Malaysia winds up being the sleepy town of Muar. Our first impressions of the town...
FoodMalaysia
Steph18

How Much it Costs to Travel in SINGAPORE (& Other Handy Advice)

As a Canadian, I’m always going to root for the underdog. On a map of the world, Singapore looks like little more than Malaysia’s toenail, so I probably should have felt some solidarity for this little sovereign nation all along. Alas, I can’t honestly say that before we left...
BudgetingSingaporeTips & Tricks
Steph16

Chewing the Fat with Two for the Road!

In my mind, the only thing better than meeting up with people who love to travel is meeting up with people who love to travel AND who love to eat. While in Cambodia, we had the chance to sit down to dinner with with the wonderful Maddie and Paul...
Chewing the Fat
Steph12

A Cheapskate’s Guide to Crossing the Singapore-Malaysia Border

For such a small country, Singapore offers an astounding number of ways to enter and exit the country; if traveling to neighboring Malaysia, you can fly, drive a car, take a train, take a ferry boat, take a private bus, take a public bus, or even walk! Having taken...
MalaysiaSingaporeTips & Tricks
Steph21

The One Food You MUST Eat in Singapore

Some eating experiences are transcendental, elevating the art of food to a higher plane, but good food doesn’t have to be fancy. In fact, on our travels our most satisfying meals aren’t the high falutin ones with slices of lemon in our water glasses or multiple forks of varying...
FoodSingapore
Steph20

Crying Fowl: Does Singapore Chicken Rice Live Up to the Hype?

“If you’re going to begin a show in Singapore, it should be in a Hawker Center—in fact, in my opinion, it should be in this [Maxwell Food Centre] hawker center—and you should probably begin with the most beloved dish in Singapore, chicken rice.” – Anthony Bourdain
FoodSingapore
Steph6

Chewing the Fat with Ashley Abroad!

I sincerely hope you aren't coming to this week's Chewing the Fat with an empty stomach because today we're talking to the awesome young woman who helms the popular blog Ashley Abroad! Ashley is a 23-year old American writer and wannabe expat who has spent the last year living...
Chewing the Fat
Steph23

Hawk It to Me: An Eating Guide to Singapore’s Hawker Centers

When it comes to listing Asia’s top food destinations, most travelers are quick to name Thailand. It’s a hard choice to argue with, but when Tony & I were plotting our trip, there were two other destinations we honed in on with the intention of simply stuffing ourselves silly:...
FoodSingapore
Steph18

Under the Spell of the S.E.A.

Prior to becoming a diver, there were few things in life I loved more than visiting an aquarium. I’ve written extensively on this site about my love of the water in general, as well as my love for aquariums in particular, but part of me wondered whether—having finally experienced...
DivingSingapore
Steph46

Adventures with Durian: A (Sort-of) Photo Essay

There comes a time during every traveler’s foray through Asia when one is eventually confronted with Durian. Travel through this continent for any length of time and sooner or later, you’ll turn a corner and smell something so fetid and foul it will nearly knock you off your feet....
AdventuresFoodSingapore
Steph26

To Edna & Friendships Made on the Road

It seems incredibly shortsighted now, but back when Tony & I were planning this trip, we were so focused on the places we would visit and the sights we would see that we gave no thought to the people we might meet and the ways they would change our...
Singapore
Steph2

Chewing the Fat with Living If!

Just in time to send you into the weekend in a food-induced coma, we've got another installment of Chewing the Fat for you, and this one's likely to get tongues a wagging! Fresh off of several years of non-stop travel, Erica (also known as Locavorista) from Living If took...
Chewing the Fat
Steph32

The Secret to Happiness: Savor the Small Stuff

Today marks 14 months on the road, and even if I’m marking the occasion curled up on a mercifully soft Nepali mattress battling a flu-turned-head-cold while a flock of pigeons coos lullabies outside our window, this still seems like something worth celebrating. In fact, if our time traveling has...
Musings
Steph13

Let’s All Go to the Singapore Zoo!

Throughout the course of our trip, we have focused more on immersing ourselves as deeply as possible in the local culture of wherever we happen to find ourselves rather than bopping around obvious attractions that seem geared more toward pleasure-seeking holiday makers and vacation takers. We don’t have a...
Singapore