I am homesick for Asia generally. Yes the entire continent

I want to jump in a songtaew and go to a beach. Sit down at a roadside stall and eat a roast pig. Go to a congee shop at 2am and eat a lobster porridge. Eat a fatty pork belly and finally eat something properly spicy again.

Drink coffee that isn’t burnt.

I long for the continent that doesn’t universally suffer from the same Protestant guilt about food. I long to be among my people who will put globs of butter and fat and carbs in their bodies at any time of the day or night.

I want filter coffee and yuan-yang coffee-tea, lush green forests and hot humidity

I even miss.. ants

Mostly I am cranky if I don’t have noodles and soup for breakfast daily. And I am cranky now

I miss 50 kinds of chilli sauces that aren’t sour, and a world where none of those options are horrible sriracha

I miss spicy food that isn’t baby spice. The lack of proper spicy food in my life here is making me very sad

I feel like a freak that whenever it’s crazy hot out here I’m all like throw out my hair happy coz my body feels normal again

I didn’t know how much I missed the heat until I left it. I truly think my entire body was made for it

I don’t.. even sweat in 100F and 99% humidity!!

I hate having to put on and take off a jacket every two minutes :/ I miss my sandal jepit and singlets