Tag: Asia

Taking off from Jakarta, residing for a week at Bangkok’s hip and get a 5-minute walk from BTS Skytrain Station is all about staying ahead of the curve and anchored by delectable food and beverages hopping. People-watching at The MBK, Siam Paragon, various kind of street food stalls and hus...

When we think of Southeast Asia, cities like Bangkok, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur often come to mind. But there’s one city that’s been hiding in plain sight, waiting for more travelers to discover its beauty: Hanoi. Nestled in the north of Vietnam, Hanoi is a city that’s ric...

In 2014, Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium made headlines by becoming the first ‘cat cafe’ in London. It’s popularity grew further after a Channel 4 report on ‘hipster cafes’ in East London, where reporter Symeon Brown took down the owners of the then new Cereal...

After months of preparation, thousands of laps in the pool and many hours in the sea, I was finally jumping into the cold waters of the Bosphorus Strait. I was taking part in Instanbul’s annual swimming race and the next time I touched dry land, I’d be on a completely different continent...

I was once told by a friend who lived in Asia that Taiwan is the Switzerland of Southeast Asia, a green and peaceful country amidst the frenetic megalopolises of neighbouring countries. His words, half registered and stored at the back of my mind, resurfaced during a one-day stopover in Taipei, capi...

The other day, while doing one of our periodic stock checks, I found that we’re very low on ‘Elska Taipei’, meaning it is bound to be the next issue to be retired. It got me thinking about how glad I was to get to visit there, how much I’d love to return, and also how happy I...

There are some very veiled and not so veiled biases in these comments and brings up the centuries-old ideallogy in Asia that lighter skin is better than darker skin. At its root, colorism, and the resulting discrimination and bias that is a result of colorism has its roots in classism in Asia. Un...