Travel Betty

Duck!
(You might want to shield your mouth too while you’re at it).
You’re at Lambert’s: The Official Home of Throwed Rolls [sic] and the Unofficial Sponsor of the Pannus. That’s right, seeing a flock of morbidly obese consumers waddling by comes as standard as the mugs containing a refillable 52 ounces(!) of soda.

On our recent trip [...]

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Another week, another gazing over at Travel Boyfriend through blurry tears to see a similar reflection staring back. Yes, yes, I know, get over Anthony Bourdain, Travel Betty.
Well, it’s hard.
He started his television career off so irascibly, but has mellowed through the past three seasons like a fine cheese. There’s depth to him. Yes, he’s [...]

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Frequent readers of Travel Betty don’t need reminding how much I love No Reservations and its cantankerous host, Anthony Bourdain. Heck, even people who just read this post and the last one I posted will kind of get the gist. 
But why?
Well, Anthony isn’t your typical perky bland travel host pointing out obvious choices and trying [...]

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Yes, I am the wacko who flew all the way around the world to eat pork at Ibu Oka in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Like I said before, it wasn’t my only reason, but it was high up there. I’m a sucker for succulence.  
So, after many months leaving you hanging, I’m sure you’re wondering, was [...]

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In a tiny Chinatown shop in San Francisco, no bigger than a one-car garage, in an alley barely wider than an airplane aisle, there lives a very special cookie company, The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company.

Every day they pump out bags and bags of your favorite post-kung-pao-chicken treat. Some are even flavored with chocolate. While [...]

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A black man with hair dyed blonde to match his wife’s. Although his is closely cropped.
Their child being comforted for her tears in the arms of an Indonesian nanny. The parents gaze off across their table towards the surf.
I imagine the man thinking, “Why can’t somebody else take care of this child?” Even though somebody [...]

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I’d heard a lot about Singapore Airlines having the best food of any airline. But, if you set one of their default meals down in front of me along with any other airlines’, I wouldn’t be able to tell which was which.
On the way over to Bali, my meal was fine, but not notable in [...]

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The downsides of an outdoor tropical garden bathroom are few. One being when yours is located next to the also-outdoor spa facility and you are suffering the effects of poorly-cooked-coconut-chicken-induced “Bali Belly.”

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You’ve already witnessed me mount a gutted pig in adoration, impulsively buy a plane ticket to taste Babi Guling straight from the source, and drive off course to see what a Pork Store entails. Now, while off visiting Los Angeles, the next chapter in my personal Pork Book has been written.
Chapter 17: Things You Didn’t [...]

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Unless you are blind, or Corey Hart, wearing sunglasses while dining in a restaurant in the evening does not make you cool. It makes you a total douchebag.

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