Southeast Asia

The upcoming book “The Beasts Beneath the Winds: Tales of Southeast Asia’s Mythical Creatures” is a collection of the region’s most elusive cryptids by a team of bestselling and award-winning authors.

Social scholars consider food to be a cultural pillar, in part because it is idiocentric to societies worldwide. Food has been used to mark countries and peoples for generations. It follows, that in Zhaojialou, an ancient water town in Shanghai, China, local cuisine takes top billing among the regional treasures for travelers to explore.