Japan is one of those countries where first-timers try to do too much. Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Kobe, Hiroshima — suddenly your holiday becomes seven hotels and half your photos are taken inside train stations. You really don’t…
Author: Thomas Nelson
People think Melaka is all red buildings, chicken rice balls and taking photos under the hot sun. Then 10pm comes. Suddenly you realise the city still got another side. If I’m staying overnight in Melaka, I wouldn’t finish dinner and…
Melaka is one of those places where people always say: “One day enough lah.” Technically yes. You can drive in, take one photo at the red building, eat chicken rice ball, walk Jonker, then balik. But if that is all…
Most people think Ipoh is just makan, coffee and old buildings. That’s only one side of it. If you’re staying overnight and looking around properly, there’s also an escort scene with local Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese-speaking girls being the…
Ipoh is one of those places where eating somehow becomes part of every plan. You go out for breakfast, walk around for an hour, then somebody wants coffee. After coffee, somebody remembers another shop they want to try. By lunch…
Spend enough time in Tokyo or Osaka at night and you’ll eventually realise Japan has a whole adult-entertainment world hiding behind very innocent-sounding names. You’ll see signs for soapland, fashion health, delivery health, pink salon, men’s esthe, host clubs and…
Ipoh has a reputation for mornings. People arrive talking about white coffee, dim sum, limestone caves and heritage streets, spend the afternoon wandering around Old Town, then somehow assume the city has completed its daily duties by sunset. It hasn’t….
Petaling Jaya is often overshadowed by Kuala Lumpur when people talk about nightlife in the Klang Valley, but PJ is far from a small suburban extension of the capital. It was established in 1952 as Malaysia’s first planned township and…
Tokyo’s adult entertainment industry is difficult to understand from English-language listings alone. Familiar words such as “escort,” “massage,” “salon” and “club” may describe business models quite different from those associated with the same terms overseas. Japanese categories are shaped by…
Roppongi Guide for Single Guys: Cafes, Izakaya, Bars and Escort Service Roppongi is one of the easiest areas in Tokyo for single men and all-guys trips because the whole night can happen in one place. You can start with coffee,…