https://grrrltraveler.com A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:33:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://grrrltraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/favicon.gif https://grrrltraveler.com 32 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/benefits-of-street-food/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:13:40 +0000 https://grrrltraveler.com/?p=87127   When traveling alone, it’s common for travelers want to avoid food poisoning, so they avoid dishes they don’t know much about… especially street food.  I totally get it and once felt this way too. But one of the best ways to truly experience a new destination is through its street food. While many travelers...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/video-chinese-snack-taste-test-w-experience-japan-yuka/ https://grrrltraveler.com/video-chinese-snack-taste-test-w-experience-japan-yuka/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:35:26 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=50563 Chinese Snack Taste Test Every country/culture has mysterious and “fear factor” foods that foreigners might have difficulty trusting . As a vegetarian, I often experience distrust more than I do an open and inviting look at food. Often, there’s no local to inform me about the cultural foods. Some foods appear off-putting and yet, it makes...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/video-chinese-snack-taste-test-w-experience-japan-yuka/feed/ 1 https://grrrltraveler.com/solo-travel-tips-eating-alone/ https://grrrltraveler.com/solo-travel-tips-eating-alone/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2017 03:20:05 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=50449 Solo Travel Tips for Eating Alone.  “How do you eat alone? is a common anxiety-stricken question I hear from solo travel hopefuls. The questions poses their reluctance for traveling solo.  Some people feel anxious and self-conscious about eating alone; they don’t want to be seen as “a loner”. Other people feel awkward because they don’t feel like...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/solo-travel-tips-eating-alone/feed/ 7 https://grrrltraveler.com/video-eating-bugs-in-thailand/ https://grrrltraveler.com/video-eating-bugs-in-thailand/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:24:02 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=47327 Eating deep fried insects in Thailand | Bangkok, Thailand  (Click here if you can’t see the video) During my trip to Bangkok, I wanted to experience eating deep fried insects in Thailand. The first time I was in Thailand, I ate a cricket… one.  This time I wanted to try more. I went in search...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/video-eating-bugs-in-thailand/feed/ 9 https://grrrltraveler.com/27-must-try-foods-around-world/ https://grrrltraveler.com/27-must-try-foods-around-world/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:50:15 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=43939 . There are many reasons to travel. Food is obviously, one of them! When visiting a country,  there’s always a handful of must-try foods out there… dishes, which serve us the essence, flavor, aroma, and culture of the country.  You’ve read about them in magazines and blogs, had friends and guidebooks recommend it to you or...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/27-must-try-foods-around-world/feed/ 90 https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-survival-tip-how-to-eat-street-food-abroad/ https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-survival-tip-how-to-eat-street-food-abroad/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:38:02 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=37395 Have you ever wished you could be adventurous enough to try street food in a foreign country, but unfortunately, the foreign foods you saw intimidated you? When I don't know much about a country's food culture and I don't recognize their street food options, I get to feeling that way. Intimidated. Faint-hearted,  I'm standing o...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-survival-tip-how-to-eat-street-food-abroad/feed/ 4 https://grrrltraveler.com/eating-bugs-in-thailand-video/ https://grrrltraveler.com/eating-bugs-in-thailand-video/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:15:24 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=37034 "Go ahead honey, be a good girl/boy and eat your bugs. " This something you could be telling your child some day and if you do, you'd not be alone. Over 2 billion people in the world supplement their diets with ... you guessed it,.. bugs!]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/eating-bugs-in-thailand-video/feed/ 3 https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-cambodia/ https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-cambodia/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:34:34 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=15564 By the time I got to Cambodia, after having visiting much of Southeast Asia, I found there really wasn't many Fear Factor Foods I haven't seen. 'Same Same'... but not too different. In fact, the prize Fear Factor foods of Khmer folk seemed to share its neighbors' palettes. Here's a few interesting foods as well as, a couple of players I haven't yet seen...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-cambodia/feed/ 29 https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-korea-how-fresh-do-koreans-like-food/ https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-korea-how-fresh-do-koreans-like-food/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:02:31 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=6533 It's all too easy for a foreigner like myself, to point a camera and say, Ewww to foreign foods I'm not culturally raised with nor understand. That's why in this post, I'd like to applaud Korea for is its proud aspiration towards healthy and FRESH foods. And ...to say, Ewww.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-korea-how-fresh-do-koreans-like-food/feed/ 11 https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-laos/ https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-laos/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:55:45 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=10137 As an American, I've lived most of my life in a shiny glass bubble... So for me, traveling is my time to experience bold new adventures and broaden the glossy sheen of my bubble. One of the greatest thrills for me in visiting Asian/Southeast Asian countries, is encountering the unique culture shock or Fear Factor (see my Korea post here) of its different cuisines.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/fear-factor-foods-in-laos/feed/ 12