Located beside Oaxaca’s Jardín Etnobotánico, Tierra del Sol specializes in traditional Mixteca ingredients and cooking techniques, led by executive chef and owner Olga Cabrera Oropeza. If you’re staying at the Quinta Real Oaxaca (click for… Read More »Tierra del Sol for a rooftop breakfast in Oaxaca
Rappi is a Colombia-based restaurant/grocery/specialty goods delivery service that dominates the deliver app market in Central and South America. It’s also moving into Mexico. I’d heard about Rappi from other digital nomads, so when I… Read More »Do foreign credit cards work on Rappi in Mexico?
You can read this Guide’s full review of the Quinta Real Oaxaca hotel by clicking here. I figured I’d add in the photos of the Quinta Real’s breakfast menu as well, because that is important… Read More »Breakfast menu at the Quinta Real Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a special place for chocolate. Breakfast chocolate and Oaxaca go together like the sky and clouds. If you’re looking to get that delicious Oaxacan chocolate in desserts, though, you’ll need to do a… Read More »CHO & Co. for chocolate desserts in Oaxaca
Growing up, I knew huitlacoche as “corn smut”. It’s a fungus that grows out of corn. And I was terrified of it. It looked like zombie cobs of corn were invading the garden. Looking back… Read More »Huitlacoche – Trying a food that scared me
I always appreciate it when I walk into a Zen monastery and I see a monk has taken their calligraphy brush and crafted a perfect circle in jet black ink on rice paper, now hanging… Read More »The Best Donuts in Toronto, 2022
On the way back from a meditation retreat and facilitating workshops in India, your Guide had a 14-hour layover in Singapore. It was my first time in Singapore, but I didn’t want to spend a… Read More »Candlenut’s buah keluak ice cream
This Guide is a huge fan of breakfasts. My mental health practice is anchored by being awesome at breakfasts. I’m an even bigger fan of breakfast street food, like clay oven rolls. I was in… Read More »Find these in Taipei: Clay Oven Rolls
This Guide is a big fan of coffee, and ever more since we learned how to drink it without turning into an anxious, jittery mess. Canned coffee in Fukuoka hotel rooms. Volcanic French press in… Read More »Will climate change ruin coffee?