I wasn’t thinking about Chinese New Year when we booked our trip to SE Asia, but when we discovered that it was occurring during the first week of our trip, I was both delighted and apprehensive. Would there be big public events to seek out, or avoid? Would it make transportation a hassle? Would there…
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Hold the soy sauce: GF in Asia
Traveling in Southeast Asia may sound like a dream for gluten-avoiders. All the rice! And rice noodles! But alas, there is one major stumbling block to GF dining: Soy sauce, made from wheat, in a travesty of inaccurate branding. Sadly, many Asian dishes are cooked with soy sauce, and requesting tamari as a substitute is…