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by Cristobal Ramirez

Brazil’s exciting, vibrant commercial capital isn’t just Latin America’s most populous metro area (not to mention the world’s sixth largest): São Paulo also boasts the curious distinction of being home to the world’s largest Japanese community outside Japan. Many of thesenipo-brasileiros are to be found in Liberdade, a central São Paulo neighbourhood just a hop and a skip from busy Avenida Paulista, also home to other Brazilians of Asian descent including Chinese and Korea

Bánh Xèo With Prawns and Pork

½ (one-half) cup rice flour pancake mix
2 tsp turmeric powder
2 eggs
½ (one-half) tsp salt
2¼ cups water
1 cup coconut milk
3 stalks spring onion, diced
2 prawns, cooked and peeled (or 4 large shrimp)
2 oz cooked pork, thinly sliced
Salt and pepper as desired for prawns and pork
2 tsp oil per pancake
1 oz bean sprouts
3 leaves of lettuce
2 oz of Vietnamese fresh herb leaves (can be spring onions, basil, cilantro, mint, and/or lemongrass
3 stalks spring onion, dice

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Did you ever notice how many Manhattan hotel exteriors are often buried in the jumble of surrounding architecture and obfuscated by the frenetic street activity? Without signage, you'd walk right past many of their entrances without noticing.

An exception to this scenario, Sofitel NYC, rises 30 stories above 44th and 45th streets, sheathed in a contemporary pattern of limestone and glass among midtown Manhattan's concrete canyons. Upon stepping through the doorman-attended glass front doors, y

The world is getting faster as well as smarter every new day. People who live here are helping others in their optimum welfare. They are creating amazing tools & contributing to incredible developments, which are catered towards the needs, wants & demands of every individual. The only thing that is required to continue everything here is the money. If you have it, then you can get a lot more than you can imagine. And, with that point, just get happy because there is now an exclusive range of pri

Everyone needs a break from their daily routine. If you want to make your holidays special and exciting, try out the Compare Europe Tours.

India's holiday packages comprises of major destinations in the country's North-West side- Delhi, Jaipur and Agra is the most twinkling part of an India luxury tour. The three cities of India form a triangle like shape geographically; the holiday packages tour is the name perfectly christened to this fantastic trip.

These destinations are well-connected to each other by good road, rail & air links. India is home to number of beautiful grand Palaces of India located throughout the country and bui

London: On the completion of 25 years of Marwah Studios, the President Sandeep Marwah has announced the launching of 162 international short films with directors of 162 countries of the World. First time in the history of entertainment industry some thing like that has been declared.
Sandeep Marwah is the producer of largest number of short films in the World. He has already given an opportunity to around 2300 young film directors and around 9000 artists and technicians from different parts of th

After more than 45 years of traveling the globe, we have finally put together a list of our favorite travel destinations of a lifetime.  This is not an exhaustive list by any means, as we can think of additional wonderful places which could be considered for such a list. We have to draw the line somewhere, and so we selected twelve of our favorites.

After reading several similar lists available on the internet, from well known publications as well as from other bloggers, we felt that we should

When such an immense quantum of business can now almost palpably be identified in the rapidly burgeoning and posh NCR of Gurgaon, then obviously hotels with proactive and acute hospitality instincts and aspirations, will design properties which provide high-end clients with the best! Thus a slew of savvy hotels in Gurgaon have mushroomed, with competent conference halls in Gurgaon facilitating business conferences, meetings and intimate confabulations, with effortless ease!

Conference halls in Gu

Noida: The Asian Academy of Film &Television celebrated a convocation ceremony for the students of 87th batch on Monday, July 6th, 2015. The ceremony was held at Marwah Studio.
A total of 84 students were hooded during the ceremony. All students across the divisions participated in the ceremony, at which Dean of AAFT; Kalyan Sarkar conferred degrees to candidates and wished for their successful career. Several students received special recognition for attaining highest grades.
Addressing the gathe

Ooty known as the “Queen of Hills” is considered as one of the most admired hill destinations of India. This hill station is located at a height of 2,240 meters above the sea level. This picturesque hill station is pleasant throughout the year because of which it has been attracting tourists from all around the world and is a favorite spot among the honeymooners. Ooty tourism is a great relief to the urban tired souls as it offers a chance to resume their affair with nature by allowing themto re

If you were lucky, you went to a terrific summer camp when you were a kid. Well, now you are all grown up, and your luck is holding up – because we have found the adult luxury equivalent of your bygone summers. So come with us and relive those halcyon days of yesteryear at the Lodge at Woodloch in Hawley, Pennsylvania.

A Region of Kids' Camps and Adult Resorts

We found the Lodge at Woodloch during our writing swing through luxurious vacation destinations in the northeast Appalachians, which in

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has in the past few decade achieved some of the greatest milestones in the history of construction, real estate, tourism and development. From spacious boulevards lined with sky scrapers to those yellow dunes to blue waters of the Persian Gulf, Dubai possesses everything that many of today’s tourists look for: malls, cruises, luxury hotels, desert safaris, archeological sites, and museums.

One can visit some of the most famous skyscrapers to experience lavish li

If you love travelling so often then you must love to spare good amount of time and money moving here and there. Isn’t? If you are not, then you must think about it as actually by following some great tactics can help is saving a lot and can be used the same in various other purposes.

One such great idea to save a lot of money while travelling to Alamosa or any other city or country is to hire Motels instead of hotels. Yes, this is the best idea as most of the motels are very budget friendly than

Sharing a birthday, July 11, with the national day of this landlocked, mostly Buddhist country wedged between China and Siberia (a bit smaller than Alaska and with a population around 3 million) has helped drive a longtime fascination. In the early Middle Ages essentially a world power thanks to the westward conquests of Genghis Khan, in the 1990s Mongolia made a transition to multi-party democracy after 70 years of Communist and Soviet domination (one of the remnants of which is that its lan

Las Vegas: “The aim of this International Day is to: Increase awareness on cooperatives; Highlight the complementarily of the goals and objectives of the United Nations and the international cooperative movement; Underscore the contribution of the movement to the resolution of the major problems addressed by the United Nations” said Sandeep Marwah Managing Director of National Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited in a meeting at Las Vegas during his visit to USA.
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The thing that amazed me most standing on Playa Hermosa on a recent Saturday morning was not the beautiful deep blue and turquoise barrel waves, or the warm sunlight glinting off the black sand. It was the nearly complete absence of people.

There were maybe 30 surfers in the water, but so spread out that everyone got a wave to surf regularly. There was a young photographer alternating between shooting images of surfers and his model-looking girlfriend in her bikini. A lone jogger headed down th

Proof that the old west is still alive and well, the Tombstone Monument Ranch is a living testament to this bygone era.  Its exterior is modelled on an 1800's frontier town and only three miles from what was once one of the most lawless locations in the US there's the chance to ride into the city and watch reenactments of the Battle at the OK Corral.  

A selection of fast rides were recently introduced for more experienced equestrians, the all day horseback adventures taking guests to the ghost t

Bangalore, the capital of the Southern state of Karnataka, is the fastest growing metropolis in Asia. The city features state-of-the-art infrastructure, high tech industries, scientific establishments, and finest indulgences of modern life. Renowned as the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore is the country's leading Information Technology center and is among the top 10 preferred entrepreneurial destinations in the world. However, that's just one side of this vibrant cosmopolitan city. Bangalore i