• Melissa Li
  • Melissa Li

FromCheesetoRice

Our bike trip from the land of Cheese to the Land of Rice… and hopefully we will find other culinarily treats along the way. 🧀🍚🍙🍶🍷🍻🍕🥐🍝🍪🥓🥗 Read more
  • Foodprint Nr 6

    July 13, 2022 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    We have to admit that we cherished the closeness to China during our stay in Laos and went to lots of Chinese restaurants where possible 😅 but apart from that our diet consisted mainly of sticky rice with grilled meat and noodle soup…. Always noodle soup 🤤Read more

  • Entering Vietnam

    July 13, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Such a cool border crossing, getting from Laos to Dien Bien Phu brings you from high mountains to wide flat rice fields in a valley. You notice immediately that Dien Bien Phu is a proud city where the Vietnamese conquered the French. Everywhere people wear Vietnam T-shirt’s, old war helmets and the red flag with a star is hung all over the city. We are slowing running out of time to catch our flight in Bangkok which is why we have to take the night Bus to Hanoi.Read more

  • Hanoi

    July 15, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    When we get to Hanoi we are overwhelmed with millions of motorbikes on the streets. We actually get into a traffic jam with our bicycles 😅 Coming from the mountains of Laos to Hanoi, we were shocked by the masses of people on the streets celebrating the weekend where the streets of the old town become car free and music, games and food take over the streets.
    Finally another luxury night bus takes us further south… 😊
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  • Hoi An

    July 19, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C

    We stop our journey south in Hoi An. A town full of lanterns and bicycle taxis. We realise that it’s the beginning of Vietnamese summer holidays and we struggle to find our last night bus that should take us to Ho-chi-Minh city. Finally we find a bus with with questionable security measures, our bicycles are secured on the roof of the bus and our „seats“ are a wooden board with a small mattress which we share with 4 other people. This is definitely where our limits of private space is tested 😅Read more

  • Green, green, green

    July 25, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    From Ho-Chi-Minh-city we finally resume cycling again. We cycle through the narrow lanes of the lush green Mekong delta - the rice bowl of Vietnam. Left and right we see dragonfruit cacti farms, pomelo orchards, coconut forests, and boats transporting rice. It’s cycling heaven (especially cos it’s all flat 😉)Read more

  • Karaoke in the Mekong Delta

    July 26, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Second day in the Mekong delta and we stumble upon a cocoa farm that makes its own chocolate. The french brought the plant to Vietnam but since they left many farmers abandoned planting cocoa due to lack of knowledge on how to make chocolate. Later on we get dragged to a karaoke party to celebrate the day of the dead. It’s certainly a very merry way to celebrate death. 😀Read more

  • Foodprint Nr 7

    July 27, 2022 in Cambodia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Ahhh Food in Vietnam. 🤤 Our personal favourites were Banh Mi, ban cuon and of course… pho… or all other varieties of noodle soup! 🍜

  • Island fever

    July 31, 2022 in Cambodia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

    Ahhh Island feeling… we found some rest on this secluded little beach that can only be reached after trekking through the jungle across the island. Definitely worth it… ☀️

  • River luxury

    August 6, 2022 in Cambodia ⋅ 🌧 25 °C

    We are getting closer and closer to our departure day… 😭 To celebrate the end we find these wonderful river floating bungalows and try kayaking instead of cycling…. Cycling leads to less conflict than a double person kayak. 😉Read more

  • Foodprint Nr 8

    August 8, 2022 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 26 °C

    Sadly our stay in Cambodia was so short to discover all the secrets of Cambodian cuisine but the wonderful lunch buffets on the streets were a definite delight… 🤤

  • On our way back

    August 19, 2022 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 17 °C

    We are back in Europe!!! First difference: Melissa is not sweating ALL the time anymore. 🤣 But we seem to have brought back the monsoon to Germany. The first two nights sleeping in the woods it rained heavily. Luckily on our second night we found a wonderful wood shed!Read more

  • Home sweet home

    August 22, 2022 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    From Cheese to Rice and back to Cheese again… 🍚 🧀
    Even though we didn’t make it all the way to China, we still cycled through many rice paddies. And along the way to the lands of Rice we collected other amazing food memories. But most importantly we are thankful of all the beautiful encounters we had with so many people. To all those who hosted us, helped us, fed us and cycled with us, we send you a big THANK YOU! ❤️

    And of course, thank you to all our friends and and family who followed and supported us. We look forward to seeing you all soon!
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    Trip end
    August 22, 2022