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La Carmina - Carmen Wong’s Biography

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La Carmina is an award-winning alternative travel / culture / fashion / food journalist, blogger, author of several books (Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House), freelance writer (NY Times, BBC, Travel + Leisure, National Geographic, Eater, LA Times Travel, AFAR) and TV personality (Discovery, Food Network, Travel Channel, and more major television networks). She is based in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.

LaCarmina was recently awarded "Best Blog of the Year," and appears on travel TV sho…

La Carmina - Carmen Wong’s Journalist Portfolio

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New York Time Styles - Tiny Love Stories: Modern Love - La Carmina

New York Time Styles - Tiny Love Stories: Modern Love - La Carmina

The New York Times, La Carmina wrote for Tiny Love Stories Modern Love NYT Styles! La Carmina wrote a person…

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Observer: Michelin Star Chef Ryan Ratino Brings Japanese Hospitality and '90s Hip-Hop to Florida

Observer: Michelin Star Chef Ryan Ratino Brings Japanese Hospitality and '90s Hip-Hop to Florida

The chef behind two Michelin-starred restaurants has two new outposts in Florida, inspired by the flavors of …

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Travel + Leisure print magazine: Fukushima, Japan sake story by La Carmina

Travel + Leisure print magazine: Fukushima, Japan sake story by La Carmina

Fukushima, Japan travel guide and sake tour itinerary story by La Carmina for Travel and Leisure print magazi…

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BBC Travel article by La Carmina: The market that feeds Mexico City's best restaurants

BBC Travel article by La Carmina: The market that feeds Mexico City's best restaurants

How Central de Abasto, the world's largest market hidden in Mexico City's so-called "trash district", has bec…

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Eater: Guide to Tōhoku, Japan's Capital of Sake, Wagyu, and Sea Pineapples

Eater: Guide to Tōhoku, Japan's Capital of Sake, Wagyu, and Sea Pineapples

La Carmina is published by Eater! 🍣🥢 She wrote a comprehensive food & travel guide to Tōhoku #Japan; photogra…

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National Geographic - LaCarmina: Open a portal to the underworld at these Buddhist 'hell parks'

National Geographic - LaCarmina: Open a portal to the underworld at these Buddhist 'hell parks'

Found across Asia, these popular theme parks began as temple gardens that warned visitors of Buddhism's many …

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12 Places to Take Your Grumpy Teen on Vacation

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From Portland’s weird subcultures to the Pyramids of Giza, these offbeat destinations will get even the most tech-addicted teens off their phones. I recall being a teenager and rolling my eyes over standard summer trips. Traipsing around with old folks to European landmarks in the heat? Brutal. Feeling trapped at a family-friendly resort or cruise with nothing to eat but buffets? Yeah, that’s an L.
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America’s 12 Best Spooky Small Towns for Halloween Haunts

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In small town America, Halloween celebrations are next level. Here’s where you can take part in coffin races, Day of the Dead parades, and other morbidly quirky festivities. Every October in tiny towns across the U.S., the spirit of Halloween gets turned up big time. Many communities proudly come together to transform their quaint main streets into a semblance of Jack Skellington’s haunted village in Nightmare Before Christmas.
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10 Reasons Locals in Tokyo Hate Tourists

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More so now than ever, ill-mannered tourists are flocking to Japan’s capital. Here’s how to avoid being one of them. These days, whenever anyone asks me for advice about traveling to Tokyo, I warn them to be prepared to wrangle with tourists everywhere they go. Because Japan is safe, affordable, and increasingly English-friendly–as well as full of magnificent attractions from festivals to food and nature–visitors have been coming in record-breaking numbers since the pandemic.
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, but I have used an original Macintosh!

What does it mean to be a journalist?

My work feels meaningful when it helps people understand different underground subcultures/lifestyles and encourages them to travel.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email. http://www.lacarmina.com/contact.php

Awards

SATW travel journalism prize - Society of American Travel Writers

2020 - Best Personal Comment - travel journalism

La Carmina was awarded the Bronze prize in the 2020 SATW Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. The Society of American Travel Writers foundation runs this prestigious travel writing award ceremony, which has been "recognizing excellence in travel journalism" since the early 1980s. Journalist La Carmina won bronze in the Best Personal Comment article category, for her travelogue about visiting Brazil with author Elizabeth Wurtzel. See her award-winning work on Fodor's:  https://www.fodors.com/world/south-america/brazil/experiences/news/i-traveled-to-brazil-with-author-elizabeth-wurtzel-heres-everything-she-taught-me

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Best Blog of the Year - Top Blogging Award

2017 - Best Blog of the Year

La Carmina wins Best Blog of the Year award for her travel, fashion and culture site www.lacarmina.com - La Carmina's travel, food & culture blog - http://www.lacarmina.com/blog - has a large and passionate following, and she is considered one of the world's top bloggers by Qantas and CBC. She wrote 3 food books (with Random House and Penguin), and is profiled in major media (The New Yorker, WWD, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, LA Times). She's a CNN, AOL and Huffington Post journalist, and hosts TV shows for Discovery, National Geographic, Food Network, Travel Channel and more. Summary of her travel work: http://www.lacarmina.com/travel.php

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