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No Reservations: Now With 100% Less Pig!!!

By Anthony Bourdain on December 10, 2008 6:51 PM | Permalink | 233 Comments

They've broken out the Santa hats at the Majestic in Saigon—and at the Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka, hotel staff in cheery red and white caps greet us in the heat whenever we come back from a day's shooting. They're a little more incongruous in Colombo, mixed in as they are with cammo fatigues and AK-47's. Things are made more odd there by an air of general goodwill and smiles — even at the checkpoints. Fingers are never far from triggers — and there's a gun crew manning what looks like a 50 caliber on the rooftop next door, but even in the armed camp that the hotel grounds have become after decades of civil war, holiday spirit is in abundance.

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