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And that led to me looking for reviews of Pyongyang - there's a branch in Laos and another in Bangkok, and it was the second one that inspired Tom Vater to write about it. A strange tale of karaoke and Coca-Cola, and that was enough for me to order a copy of Beyond The Pancake Trench, his bittersweet collection of travel writing where everyone seems to end up dead.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Devil's Road to Kathmandu
In Beijing in 2008, a few months after the Olympics, I wandered lost in a backstreet with a friend, looking for a vegetarian restaurant. We bumped into an odd looking chap in a hat who was looking for the same place, and teamed up. Thus I made a new friend, an academic sometimes trapped in Canada, who'd send me emails from strange places, like a North Korean-themed restaurant in Vientiane.
And that led to me looking for reviews of Pyongyang - there's a branch in Laos and another in Bangkok, and it was the second one that inspired Tom Vater to write about it. A strange tale of karaoke and Coca-Cola, and that was enough for me to order a copy of Beyond The Pancake Trench, his bittersweet collection of travel writing where everyone seems to end up dead.
And that led to me looking for reviews of Pyongyang - there's a branch in Laos and another in Bangkok, and it was the second one that inspired Tom Vater to write about it. A strange tale of karaoke and Coca-Cola, and that was enough for me to order a copy of Beyond The Pancake Trench, his bittersweet collection of travel writing where everyone seems to end up dead.
