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Vendor turning skewers over a charcoal grill at night Essays What Years of Travel Taught Me About Ordering Food

The one question that gets you the good dish, and why pointing at another table beats reading a menu.

7 min read Rolex being rolled at a Kampala street stall Home Cooking The Rolex Is Not a Watch: A Kampala Breakfast

Chapati, eggs and cabbage rolled in thirty seconds on a street corner — and why it never works at home.

5 min read Kayiwa holding a ten-dollar note over a night-market table of som tam, grilled skewers, sticky rice and khanom bueang Travel Tips How I Budget a Month in South-East Asia

A line-by-line breakdown of what thirty days actually costs when you eat where the drivers eat.

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Kayiwa at Wat Arun, Bangkok, at sunset
Hi, I'm Kayiwa

Food and travel creator from Kampala, based in Bangkok. Eleven countries, one standard: every place visited in person, every site and cook credited by name, every price published as charged.

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