Vietnamese food is brilliant and exceptional – in its taste, in its balance – a delicate combination of various fresh ingredients. The dishes are exotic, diverse, super tasty and differ from region to region – light and balanced, spicy and delicate, diverse and exotic. Vietnamese cuisine uses small amounts of fat in its cooking, making…

Tasting NotesNuoc cham is a salty, sweet, tangy , spicy sauce with a lot of heat. But you can also make it without the heat. What You Need 4 tablespoons fish sauce. Make sure you get a really good one, not the kind found in most supermarkets but rather those found in Asian food stores. If…

Tasting NotesBold peanut flavours with notes of ginger, lime, soya sauce. It’s salty and sweet. What You Need 4 tablespoons Hoisin sauce. 2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter, this has coarse chopped peanuts in it and is faster than getting peanuts and roasting them. 6 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice. 1 tablespoon liquid honey.…

Vietnam is blessed with some of the most incredible natural wonders in the world. . Powdery white sand beaches grace clear turquoise waters. . Enchanting waterfalls cascade amidst lush, green, mountains. . Luscious, green, terraces; glistening rice fields set amidst golden-hued mountain ranges. Vietnam is a scenic paradise – its cities a potpourri of the…

Palm Springs – the great starting point. Terrific, excellent, adventures, await you – all within a few hours driving. It takes about one hour from Palm Springs to Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree National Park The park is named after the Joshua trees, native to the park. It encompasses 790,636 acres acres covering 1,235…

Cole Speck – 32 – one of the youngest artists making a major impact on the Northwest Coast art scene. He is part of a trend – young First Nations artists producing quality art more common to artists in their 50s and 60s. The reasons are twofold – economics being the primary reason. Today many…

There is nothing like it – people dancing. And it becomes sheer magic when great movie stars – the Hollywood icons of the past get their groove on. Here is the best of the best.

Put aside your conceptions of Palm Springs as merely a laid back golfers paradise. It is anything but. Palm Springs is amazing, diverse, fabulous, endless choices, surprising, modern, contemporary, history galore – a fabulous destination for a great holiday. Here are but a few things that await you. Village Fest Once a week, every Thursday,…