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SPLASHING OUT If your budget is up to doing the Golden Triangle in style, consider a night or two at Le Meridien Baan Boran, for a room with a great view. Perched on a ridge amid some 160 hectares of bamboo and teak, every room offers stunning vistas of this intersection of nations?and you're safely removed from the tacky tourist mayhem and noisy "longtail" boats below. The Meridien's impeccable service and graceful traditional architecture moved the Tourism Authority of Thailand to proclaim it northern Thailand's best hotel. Prices start at $55 for a room...
...leading to the monsoon-stained mansion where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since September 2000, was still closed off. But behind the sawhorses, blue-trousered municipal workers could be seen repairing potholes and sweeping the sidewalks clear of cheroot butts, palm fronds and bamboo leaves. Neighbors reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner's lawn was being mowed, her grounds spruced up. A few blocks away, the once forlorn and empty headquarters of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Suu Kyi's political party, was jammed with more than 200 members. Dozens of journalists...
...looming and colossal evil known as Sin rips the hero from his neighborhood and shunts him to Spira, where tan, sea-faring people lash palm leaves to the bamboo ribs of beachside huts. Of course, he tries to get home, and instead gets involved with Spira’s own mission to defeat Sin, led by Yuna, a self-sacrificing young summoner and her heterogeneous gang of guardians...
Succulent combinations of shrimp, crabmeat and pork in paper-thin pastry-like wrappings are steamed and served in the trademark bamboo baskets, which are loaded onto carts and wheeled through the restaurant?mobile menu and tableside delivery in one. Beyond the signature dumplings, other offerings include garlic pork ribs, turnip cake and the ubiquitous chicken feet. Dim sum is usually taken with tea?jasmine, chrysanthemum and oolong are favorites?but rice wine and beer are acceptable alternatives...
...line moved slowly past fake bamboo trees decorating the mall corridor. The skinny blonde woman bounced back to tell us that we’ll have two minutes to say whatever we want to the camera. It suddenly hit me that I would have to stand in front of a camera, as well as a growing audience of shoppers, and talk about myself. My mouth went a little...