Kang Bee Hua
The last kampong in Singapore
Last year, I decided to brave the drive into the dirt road in Buangkok where the last of Singapore's rural villages were built, since...
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Kang Bee Hua
Aug 1, 20202 min read
A Castle, a Carvery and a Cathedral
The dramatic skyline with black, or rather, sooty gothic buildings and spires in Edinburgh held promise of an interesting stay, and...
Kang Bee Hua
Jul 18, 20202 min read
From Lancashire to London
Three Aprils ago, enroute London from Lancashire, my husband and I made a stopover at Chester. I simply fancied visiting Chester because...
Kang Bee Hua
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Solo sailor-artist Pat Henry
Decluttering during Covid-19 pandemic lockdown or "circuit breaker" as it's called in Singapore, yielded its rewards. A couple of...
Kang Bee Hua
Jan 9, 20192 min read
Dalat
If I have to use one word to describe the mountain city of Dalat in southern Vietnam, it would be delectable. With budget travel...
Kang Bee Hua
Dec 3, 20181 min read
Cottony Clouds, Silky Sands, Warm Waters
I have always dreamed of driving a car. That impossible dream came true in 1999 when I got my driving licence after a decade of...
Kang Bee Hua
Nov 14, 20184 min read
It has only just begun
The warmth and charm of the people from the land of 7,000 plus islands bid me go the second time, not to rub shoulders with ministers,...
Kang Bee Hua
Jul 18, 20182 min read
Standing in the Gap
I never really understood what "standing in the gap"meant until I got fascinated by the endless rows of hedges wrapped around pasture in...
Kang Bee Hua
Feb 21, 20182 min read
The beast of burden on Mussoorie
The lean man, bearing a rope about an inch thick and longer than his length of some five and a half feet, looked intently at us. Almost...
Kang Bee Hua
Jan 5, 20182 min read
Snowfall
My maiden experience of falling snow was akin to the flush of first love -- you can’t have enough of it. Before I drifted into sleep on...
Kang Bee Hua
Nov 16, 20171 min read
Stuck on you
One of my favourite food has to be glutinous rice (or sticky rice) -- cooked in different shapes and forms. From muah chee (a chewy...
Kang Bee Hua
Oct 18, 20172 min read
One missed flight, two sweet surprises in Bergen
A view to die for. This was literally a picturesque late autumn view from our Airbnb host Roy's apartment at Dreggsallmenningen in...
Kang Bee Hua
Oct 10, 20171 min read
Du Pain en Saigon
Can you possibly find plain, good handmade oven-baked bread for less than 10 US cents? Staying at Chinatown in District 5 in Ho Chi Minh...
Kang Bee Hua
Oct 9, 20171 min read
It is well
My ride to Cardigan Bay in Wales was punctuated by a stop at Fernhill Lodge where Sylvia served up her inimitable version of crackling...
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