Do you know where your shrimp comes from?
Posted on 23. Dec, 2008 by Mikey Leung in Food, Responsible Travel, Sundarbans
If not, maybe you should find out. “White Gold”, as Swedish NGO the Swallows NGO has termed shrimp from Bangladesh, is one of the nation’s most environmentally threatening products.
This is because the shrimp farms require saline water. In a bid to increase production for the lucrative product, producers have forcibly taken land from poor villagers, [...]
Dhaka's top seven value-for-money restaurants
Posted on 09. Dec, 2008 by Mikey Leung in Editorials, Food
~story by Mikey Leung~
Stuck for some restaurant recommendations while living in Dhaka? Here are our top seven recommendations straight from the upcoming guidebook. The following choices were made on ‘value,’ which really means value for money. Price was definitely a consideration but not the deciding factor in this list.
1. Dhaba Hse 100, Rd 11, Block [...]
