NOODLE

A massive steaming bowl of rice noodles draped in fish sauce, soy, chili paste, fresh lime juice and topped with pounds of minced pork, handfuls of torn cilantro and mint: A feast for kings and queens, especially when that pork is mixed with belly and crisped in garlic and ginger paste.

All that's missing is an endless supply of cold beer, sand, waves, Bathory's first record and sinful indoor sports.