Foodie Goes Travel explores food, hospitality, design and place through first-hand experience, observation and conversation.

The journal is interested in what lies behind the things we encounter when travelling: the land and memory behind food; the ideas that shape a hotel; the history held within a building; and the people whose knowledge gives a place its character.

I am JJ Wong, the founder and editor of Foodie Goes Travel. I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, later lived and worked in Hong Kong and Singapore, and now live in Umbria, Italy. Moving between these places has shaped the way I see both Asia and Europe — sometimes with familiarity, sometimes with distance, and often from both directions at once.

Before starting Foodie Goes Travel, I spent more than a decade working internationally with brands, property owners and developers in retail strategy and commercial real estate. That work taught me to look closely at how places are formed: how architecture, businesses, people, movement and decisions about what to preserve or change influence the way an environment feels and functions.

Today I apply that same curiosity differently.

How I Look at a Place

A hotel is more interesting to me when its design leads back to the city outside. A restaurant becomes more meaningful when a dish reveals something about land, migration, memory or technique. A building matters not only because it is beautiful, but because of what has been preserved, changed or given another use.

Foodie Goes Travel follows those connections. Some stories begin with a stay or a meal. Others begin with a conversation, a return journey or something ordinary noticed for the second time. Every published story is grounded in experience rather than assembled from a distance.

Editorial Independence

Foodie Goes Travel is built on first-hand experience. I do not publish conventional coverage simply because a place is new, fashionable or offered to me.

Hosted stays, meals, invitations and commercial relationships are disclosed. They do not guarantee coverage or determine editorial conclusions.

Where research supports personal observation, sources are identified whenever relevant.

Work with Foodie Goes Travel

Foodie Goes Travel welcomes editorial commissions, interviews and collaborations with publications, hotels, restaurants, makers and hospitality projects that share an interest in substance, context and place.

I am especially interested in work with a strong human story: a person, an idea, a craft, a building, a landscape or a change unfolding within a destination.

For editorial enquiries and collaborations, please get in touch.

Contact Foodie Goes Travel

Thank you for reading.

JJ Wong
Founder & Editor, Foodie Goes Travel

Stories shaped by the art of noticing.

Follow ongoing observations and stories on Instagram at @foodiegoestravel.