Originally Posted by
mikel51
This is what I like. Smaller, lighter, cheaper and better than those big monsters.
Yeah no arguing that this one is smaller than the usual "universal" ones. But why carry anything like this when all you need is a Europe-to-USA plug?
Between my USA plug and the Euro-to-USA plug, everything is covered in SE Asia. I've never need anything but these two in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia. I used to carry that bulky all-in-one adapter that had the UK monster plug and the Aussie plug, and never used them.
The Wikitravel has a good article on it.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Electrical_systems
Sadly the map is a little hard to read. It does say some places in China use the Aussie plug but I bet that's changing fast. Any product you buy in Asia these days comes with a standard Euro style plug.