Dosa Hut is the best restaurant in Melbourne; at least it is if you have $6.50 in your pocket and a hankering for Indian street food, which neatly outlines the problem with picking “best” restaurants. It’s contextual. I hate recommending restaurants to people that I don’t know because I’ll get their context wrong with invariable… Continue reading Dosa Hut
Month: March 2009
4 Ingredients
Thanks to the Twitter procrastination pipe and Ed Charles, I recently became aware of the 4 Ingredients cookbook and associated television show. After the unshakable rage and bewilderment had subsided on my first viewing, I realised that it should be me profiting from people’s inability to not only cook but select appropriate means of learning… Continue reading 4 Ingredients
Kebab Pizza
A few weeks ago, a Swedish friend contacted me to tell me that she couldn’t believe that we never had discussed kebab pizza. I’m sure that I had discussed both of these foods with her, but in complete isolation. Someone in Sweden has popularised the notion of combining two of the world’s disparate street foods… Continue reading Kebab Pizza
Update: How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
Sunset at Kep Reader Paul mentions that the ferry from Ha Tien to Phu Quoc is now running, with confirmation from Phearak. Getting between two of Indochina’s laziest beach destinations has just become all the more lazier. The route can now be organised through Sok Lim Tours and is cheaper than the way that I… Continue reading Update: How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
The Long Shot
Austin Bush and I have been throwing around ideas for new projects for a while but the one that that seems to have most resonance is chasing down regional Thai food. Sure, there’s Thai food cookbooks aplenty, but few (if any) that contextualise Thai food into regions. There’s a competition on at the moment, throwing… Continue reading The Long Shot
Suggestions: Hong Kong
I’m heading to Hong Kong in April (also, Sydney for the search nerdery of SMX, KL for a stopover and Cambodia to placate Phnomenon fans). I don’t even know where to start in HK apart from what I trawl from Diana Kuan’s Appetite for China. Any suggestions?
One Food Blogger per 120,000 Australians
I updated my list of Australian food bloggers and in my post-work statistical analysis haze, I pulled out Excel. There are 176 blogs in my list, broken down as follows: State No. of Blogs WA 12 NSW 43 SA 7 VIC 82 QLD 16 ACT 11 Tas 5 NT 0 As percentages, the results seem… Continue reading One Food Blogger per 120,000 Australians
Rotisserie = home
I’ve moved into the house of an expatriate Slovenian bootlegger and as soon as I’ve set up a rotisserie, it feels like home again. If there is a single item of cookware that I could be trapped with on a desert island, it would be the rotisserie, although only if there was an indigenous chicken… Continue reading Rotisserie = home