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List of places we visited and recommend for cafes, restaurants, excursions, lodging etc.

India

Mumbai
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Steps Cafe
Cool cafe in Bandra right by our hotel. It’s down these steps that you can hang out by. The drinks were great! Good cold coffee and good cheesy garlic bread but the cold coffee yesterday from shiv sagar was much much better
Joshh
A kulfi place. Really good Kolkata Paan kulfi.
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Kalki Santacruz
Went here for shopping. If you like shopping for Indian clothes apparently this is a good spot.
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Shiv Sagar Restaurant Juhu
Right by Juhu Beach. Absolutely amazing pav bhajji! We also had Chinese bhel, masala pav, chiku milkshake and cold coffee. Everything was amazing!
Masque
# 4 best restaurant (at the time we went) in India. A modern Indian fine dining place with 10 course meal and everything was great using locally sourced ingredients! Highly recommend going!
Olympia Coffee House
Located in Colaba. This was an Parsi Cafe it had pretty decent food. We got chicken tikka masala, roti, veg biryani, palak paneer, and one other chicken curry. Some of it very oily but chicken tikka masala was the best one.
Gypsy Chinese Restaurant
Located in Dadar West. This place was great. Had amazing Red Dragon Chicken, Kung Pao Potatoes, Garlic Prawns and Burnt Chicken Biryani. Everything was delicious
Candies
Decent food. Fast casual place. Ambiance is better than food. They have cool staircases that lead to different sitting areas
Mahesh Lunch Home Juhu
Great food! Ordered Lemon Soda, Thai Chilli Chicken, and other chicken curries. They were all really good! Disha got the chicken gassi which is a south indian dish and is a special type of coconut based curry — she loved it!
Shiv Sagar Juhu
Great Pav Bhajji and pizza! And best cold coffee I had so far in India
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Taj Lands End
Nov 16 - Nov 20. Located in Bandra. Good location good and clean hotel. During morning breakfast rush the hotel elevators take forever! Took 20 mins to get to breakfast one day.
JW Marriott
Nov 24-25. Stayed at JW Marriott in Juhu Beach. Decent lounge. Nice and clean rooms.
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Anand Stall
We had great vada pavs and dosa! Definitely have to try masala dosa and the paneer schezuan dosa. The vada pavs were really great!
Elco Pani Puri Center
Really great pani puri place and clean too. They use bottled water for the pani and gloves when serving. Went here twice in same day
Karamat Sugarcane Juice Stall
Located in Colaba. Random sugar cane juice cart that we went to. Was really good juice!
Smart Frankie
We were in the area and decided to try this place out. We got spicy paneer Frankie and it was really good! Decent prices too.
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Effingut Brewery Colaba
They had pretty decent beers on tap. I got Antbier and one other one. Due to on-going elections there was going to be a no-alcohol sales ban placed starting at 6pm that day so we didn’t get to spend much time here or try all of the beers. Some of the beers were also kinda warm.
Udaipur
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Kanhaiya Misthan Bhandar
This is a sweets place. Disha loves their mawa - been going there for years!
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Inder Prakash
They have a nice rooftop and a good restaurant where we had dinner. This is also where everyone was staying and where the mendhi was on the first day.
Sun and Moon Cafe
Really good food and good views. It’s one of the highest rooftops in Udaipur. They had really good tandoor chicken. Sadly it was a “dry-day” cause of elections so we couldn’t try any of their cocktails.
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Monsoon Palace
Really nice views of Udaipur. It’s a sanctuary and need to drive up.
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Manuscript Jhilwara Haveli
Nov 20 - Nov 24. This was a great hotel they have amazing breakfast and really nice views from the roof and breakfast area. Very friendly staff. Rooms also very clean. Great location too
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Paliwal Food
Amazing kachoris! These kachoris are made of dal / lentils.
Sukhadia Circle Area
There are a bunch of street food vendors here so take your pick at what to eat. We had Pizza - it was good!
Shiv Sagar Cafe in Fateh Sagar
Located at Fateh Sagar. Went here at night after dinner. We got Dabeli and Pav Bhajji, both really good but dabeli could’ve been spicer and a little more flavorful. We also got Khulfi from a near by stall
Sukhadia Circle
Went back again to get pizza. This time we also got Dhai Puri and Pav Bhajji. All were amazing! It was from the stall that says “South Indian” in giant letters.
JMB Restaurant
Got onion kachoris to go before heading to the airport.
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Gangaur Art
An art shop where Disha took classes. Visited her old teacher and bought some new paintings.
Glass Inlay
They have cool glass inlay art and wall decor pieces. Can make custom orders too.
Divya Arts
Old small shop where the guy makes custom mother of pearl wall frames to hang.

Vietnam

Hanoi
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Cafe Pho Co
Really cool vibes cafe and with good coffee.
Leva Coffee - Balcony
Really good coffee and a great place to people watch too from the balcony. We chilled here for a couple of hours until our reservation at 3pm at The Halflington.
Circle Coffee - Bar
Right under the Tailor Bros coffee. Really good croissants and egg coffee.
Katinat by Lake
Coffee place by the lake. Nice place to hangout and chill but coffee was horrible.
The Running Bean
The coffee here so good! We also got food too that way delicious!
Cafe Giang
Apparently where egg coffee originated. It was really good! Lots of people so it was really cramped space. Cash only.
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Ne Bar
This was a bar that was recommended by a bartender at the Halflington. Amazing drinks. They have a drink here called “Pho” and the way they make it is really unique with a fire show. They have drinks here that are themed after different Vietnamese dishes (very similar to Double Chicken Please in NY). Highly recommended.
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Tailor Bros
1100-1200 Appointment. This seems like a nice place for a custom tailor but it just seemed way too pricy.
Tired City
Clothing Store where the designs are from local street artists. A bit pricy, but they have some really comfortable sweaters and hoodies.
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Pho Ga 26
Amazing Pho place! Cash only.
The Corner Food
A small spot with decent food
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Banh Mi 25
This place was amazing! Long lines but it goes by quick. We ordered 1 each and decided to get 1 more after. The bread was a little too hard for me but Disha really liked it but overall really good still.
Banh Mi 25
Went back to this place again after having it the night before. We got 3 again between the 2 of us. :)
MẸT Vietnamese restaurant & Vegetarian Food 1
We went here for lunch. Ordered Rice noodles with chicken, and vegan pho, and fried chicken with cashew, and Hanoi beer. The food was great! Their lime sauce they give with pho was really good.
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The Halflington
Best bar in Vietnam. #47 Best bar in Asia. This place was really cool from the inside. They do seasonal changes and the day we went was the 2nd day they were trying their winter menu and theme. The bars theme is a natural history museum. They have dinosaur bones having on the ceiling and fossils on the bar that are actually real fossils found in Vietnam. The drinks were amazing!
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Train Street Hanoi
Went here as part of the walking tour. Cool vibes. Train goes right through the middle of the shops and bars. Very touristy.
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1984 Tattoo & Piercing Studio
Really clean place and we just walked-in. As soon as we walked in we were getting help and they worked with the artist to get a price and adjustments on the tattoo and what i wanted. My artists name was Stella. Tattoo took about 2hrs to complete. Really love the way it came out!
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Pizza 4Ps 11B Bao Khanh
Amazing pizza and tiramisu! We got margherita. half tandoor chicken and half smoked salmon. Place does get really busy definitely should make reservation if possible.
Pho Nguyet
Really good pho place. Super tiny place and cash only.
Ninh Binh
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Ninh Binh Day Tour
Highly recommend going to Ninh Binh! Started the tour by hiking up to Ngoa Long Mountain. Its all stairs round trip was about 45mins so not too bad. But you get a really nice view of the area from top.
After we got down we biked around the area and made pit stops along the way.
After the bike we went to lunch at a local spot that the guide took us to which was really good.
Then 1 hr long pagoda ride along the river. Really nice views.
Last stop was at a template nearby.
Overall the trip was the whole day from 7am to 6pm-ish
Ha Long Bay
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Mila Cruise Check-In
Overnight stay. Ha Long Bay overall is really nice. Def just need 1 night stay here on the cruise. One the cruise we did 2 excursions. 1st one was kayaking then the next one was going through caves. They were meh. but views that you get are amazing. The cruise overall was pretty awesome but it was very touristy. Well organized.
We got picked up at our hotel around 8am because it takes about 2.5-3hrs to get there. Made a small pitstop along the way for bathroom/snack break. The location that you stop is pretty much a tourist spot, its where every tour company stops at and pretty much around the same time too.

Japan

Narita
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Routemap Coffee Roasters
Made it to Japan again! This was a quick train over from Narita airport. Really small coffee shop that the dude is sharing with another clothes store but the coffee was really good. The cappucino and the matcha latte were really good!
Pan Chaya Narita
Amazing homemade buns. We got one with eggs and another sugar one. Amazing coffee too!
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T’s TanTan Narita Airport
T’s TanTan is always good! Located past security in Terminal 1 at the Tokyo Food Bar. The one in Tokyo Station is still better because they have the black sesame there and this location at the airport did not have that.
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Great Peace Pagoda
Really nice park to just walk around and hang out at. We spent a couple of hours here.

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