The restaurant is Wazwan, which offers a “royal taste of India” through Kashmiri cuisine. The name of the restaurant itself refers to Kashmir’s most formal meal, a lengthy multicourse affair that offers a range of pilafs, meats, and curries. Most groups spend considerable time working through the extensive menu, which serves tandoori chicken, lamb and vegetarian curries, and other specialty dishes cooked with care. Unlike other Indian buffet style places in the area, Wazwan’s food is hot, made to order, and authentic.

Is it tough staying in shape in Seoul? In a city where youthfully slim is still prevalent despite the assault by global fast food (Krispy Kreme, looking at you) and where waifish young men and women make hipster look baggy, it leaves many overseas-born bodies wondering how to shed the flab.

“The formula for success, you have already known for years. It’s a two part plan of moderated intake and moderate output,” said Mark, a fitness trainer friend from Hong Kong.

Things are changing for the better. I’m sure of it. There are better curriculums, better trained and vetted teachers. Better managed schools. Savvier parents, with the power of word-of-mouth and internet boards, are gravitating towards schools that possess an education philosophy and offer real results from actual teaching.

If you have ever been hip-check and elbowed at a choke point in the subway by an 80-something grandmother, you know your daydream of a peaceful and urbane life is over. That’s why the refuge of a good home is so important. Choose your officetel wisely. Set it up as your sanctuary from busy urban life.

The amazing thing about Thailand’s isles of paradise are the beaches which range from visually breathtaking to the beach scenes which can cause some to gasp. Centrally located on the western part of the Phuket Island (where nearly everything is located) is lively Patong Beach. This is full of people from dinnertime, and if you like to party, meet drunken Brits and their ladyboy girlfriends this is the place to rock on (I say this half seriously but there is some truth to this.)

It’s clear that there are more and more options each year to help defer the Office until syndication, and help your early twentysomethings resemble something positve along the lines of skills development and personal growth.

The increasingly popular and growing Teach for America has gained significant traction in just a few short years by tapping into the sheer energy and desire for young people to do something meaningful and to give back to others.

Korea adds to that opportunity in 10 ways that will help recent graduates a chance to do that and more. Here are ten reasons, culled from interviewing 50 American, British, and Australian teachers who have come to spend one year or more to teach English to Korean children, why teaching in Korea works for them.

Let this be a lesson to you! Get some cookware as soon as you settle in. Going abroad to work as a teacher, or as with any position, is an adventure. On the other hand, moving into a place in an international city is not. It’s just like any other move you made such as during college (unless you lived in a dorm for four years) or immediately afterwards.