Lunar New Year is undoubtedly Asia's most famous cultural tradition. A number of fascinating opportunities exist to show how countries celebrate it, through unique destinations and cultural differences.

America has gone can crazy. We're drinking so much out of the spherical aluminum tubes that there's a nationwide shortage of them. And it's not just soda we're guzzling, but just about anything in liquid form, including (nonalcoholic) craft beer, premixed cocktails, hard seltzers, fizzy juices, sparkling water, kombucha, iced tea and cold coffees.

Prachinburi’s Chao Phraya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital has opened “Ganja Ros” (Taste of Ganja) – Thailand’s first eatery that offers dishes spiked with marijuana.

This green smoothie is not magical. It will not detoxify you (your liver, lungs and digestive system do that just fine) or cleanse you (food doesn't make you clean or dirty) or fulfill the overblown promises inevitably made about one food or another right after the New Year's ball drops.

The season of black winter truffles has arrived at the Michelin-starred Elements restaurant, with chef de cuisine Hans Zahner and his team getting ready to serve up delicacies featuring the richly flavoured “black diamonds”.