Lucille Wong

  • Vive la Valparaíso

    Vive la Valparaíso

    Melbourne has the best coffee in the world and I’ve found proof in the seaport city of Valparaíso, some 120 km (90-minute bus ride) from the Chilean capital of Santiago. In Valpo’s main square is the “Melbourne Café”, a café which markets itself as “making coffee, just like in Melbourne”. The menu features the flat…

  • Go cycling in Hong Kong

    Go cycling in Hong Kong

    What do you do when you’re in Hong Kong, a destination known for its food and shopping, and your partner likes neither? When he suggests cycling, I am horrified. Not only is Hong Kong one of the most densely populated places in the world, it’s also extremely hilly. The streets are narrow and reckless bus and taxi…

  • Peruvian Comforts

    Peruvian Comforts

    If Korean food is having a moment in Melbourne, then Peruvian food is having a thousand moments all over the world. In 2011, culinary royalty Ferran Adrià endorsed Peruvian cuisine, pronouncing it the key to the future of gastronomy. In 2013, chef Alain Ducasse nominated Peru as a leading player in the global culinary scene.…

  • Adelaide – what’s with all the pop-ups?

    Adelaide – what’s with all the pop-ups?

    It’s been hard to write a travel blog without doing much travelling. Since Japan (twice) and Hong Kong last year, I’ve been golden handcuffed to my desk job so there have been no more international trips. There have been however, a few domestic trips for business and pleasure. The last trip for pleasure was an exciting…

  • Summer means tennis

    Summer means tennis

    The Australian Open is one of my favourite times of the year. Held in my hometown of Melbourne every January, the tennis means summer days and long, lazy nights. I first went to the tennis with my girlfriends at the ripe old age of 16. It was school holidays. Back then, a Ground Pass of…

  • Camping on the Murray

    Camping on the Murray

    For New Year’s Eve 2013, my friends and I set out to Tocumwal, a three-hour drive north of Melbourne. Toks is on the Victorian/New South Wales border. The rural town is on the bank of the mighty Murray River. The main attraction is of course, the river. Camping on the river is free. And river…

  • Fake Europe: day trip to Macau

    Fake Europe: day trip to Macau

    The good thing about a travel blog is that you can go somewhere and not really like it. And this was the case when we went to Macau, a Special Administration Region (SAR) of China, just an hour ferry ride from Hong Kong. I had roped my sister and three friends to come with me…