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Spider & Pagoda, Hualien

Being from San Francisco, nothing makes me like a city more than a good gay pride event. I’ll only catch the first few days of Halifax Pride Week, the third biggest in Canada but lucked out by being here for one of its highlights: the Dykes Vs Divas softball game where butch lesbians are pitted against drag queens.

B-Square Ranch is weird. In a good way. But really weird. The place is up near Farmington, New Mexico, and it’s got two museums on it – ”museums” being a slightly grand term for what is really just two collections amassed by what appear to be obsessive people.

Long ago, I’d heard there was mutton stew on the menu at the KFC. When I called to confirm, the guy who answered the phone said, “Hell yeah man, we got it” in a very New Mexican accent. That proud response has echoed in my head ever since, so of course I stopped at the KFC first thing.

Shot in front of the Crocodile Kingdom food stall in Eastern Singapore’s Old Airport Road Hawker Centre, it extols the virtue of herbal crocodile soup.