Have plans to travel to Southeast Asia soon? Here's what our correspondent experienced during his monthlong stint in the region in February.
ShareAs I strode down the wide Hanoi Street called Pho Hue, I passed by a sign posted on the front of a restaurant. I scanned it and kept walking. And then as the one-sentence sign began to reverberate in my head louder and louder, I had to go back and read it again:"This restaurant does not accept customers from CHINA." [Its caps.]
In the meantime, I went about my business—in this case, an assignment to write about Hanoi-style pho—eating at street stalls and restaurants, drinking in cocktail bars and chatting with people—both visitors and locals alike. Hanoi was decidedly different since my last visit five years earlier. It was not just the fact that the place was cleaner and its citizens seemed to be enjoying a higher standard of living.
The tourist magnet Pub Street, a two-block pedestrian lane flanked by bars, clubs and restaurants in the center of Siem Reap, was as full as usual for this time of year, according to Belgian-born, five-year Siem Reap resident Kristian Wouters, who is the manager at the Angkor What? Bar and a senior travel adviser at About Asia Travel.
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