Noryangjin Fish Market
Noryangjin Fish Market, one of the most famous of its kind in Korea and, indeed, the whole world. 노량진수산물도매시장 Do you have a favorite fish market? The one you use at home or perhaps know from travels? Tsukiji? Pike’s Place? Comment under my corresponding Instagram …
Of melons and deserts
Kasper embarks on the melon trail: Hami and Shanshan in Xinjiang. Hami melon waste container, hami melon bench, hami melon paintings, hami melon monuments. In Hami, melons are bigger than life. Everyone in China knows these melons, but not everyone knows the namesake town. Hami …
Cradle of writing (or the fate of king’s toothache)
Yīnxū 殷墟 in Anyang city is one of the world’s most important archeological sites. We are talking about very, very old times here: Tutankhamun-old and Trojan War-old; the times of Ancient Babylon, the times of Rigveda, the times of replacing bronze tools with iron ones. …