Bánh mì xiu mai is the ultimate culinary mashup: a strange interpretation of Cantonese food in a French baguette via Saigon. The banh mi is your average baguette filled with a slap of pate, pickled carrot and stalks of coriander. The xiu mai part is utterly bewildering. Picking the xiu mai from the sauce The… Continue reading Bánh Mì Xiu Mai
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Guerilla Gardening: How to compost a whole cow
The guerilla garden continues apace with one rude surprise. The bamboo has been chopped down and left aside to mulch as much material as possible before I call in the council to remove the woodier stalks. The rude shock is that beneath the thin ground cover of rotting bamboo leaf and years of accumulated trash,… Continue reading Guerilla Gardening: How to compost a whole cow
My head on SBS
A while back I foretold a grim future where bloggers would be hired up by major media players. That future is this afternoon. I’ve just started work on Special Broadcasting Service’s new (as yet untitled) world food blog. The site is still a bit shaky – no commenting/trackbacks/RSS yet – but it’s a start on… Continue reading My head on SBS
My new baby
No, I’m not having a real baby. Don’t get your hopes up, Mum. I’ve finally taken the plunge and invested in a real camera: a Nikon D40X. My point-and-shoot Olympus C-740 was reaching the end of its life: I had worn off the rubber eyepiece from having it pressed against me so often, and was… Continue reading My new baby
Five Links on Friday – 2 May 2008
The chicharron burrito – “I took another bite and the chicharron let me know that this shit was not a game.” Austin Bush does Tsukiji – Austin from RealThai trains his wide-angle lens on some frozen tuna at Tokyo’s famous fish market If I drank more wine – this is how I’d spend my weekends… Continue reading Five Links on Friday – 2 May 2008
The most useless kitchen item that I own
Ed from over at Tomatom has started an interesting thread on the least useful kitchen items that one owns. I tend to veer away from any single-use item – I wrote about this in Cambodia as a rare victory over acquisitiveness. Buying kitchen gear does not make you a better cook. Spend your hard-earned cash… Continue reading The most useless kitchen item that I own
French Fry Coated Hot Dog On a Stick: The Recipe
I shouldn’t be left unattended in the kitchen. One thing that struck me about finding the French fry coated hot dog on a stick in South Korea was that they were doing it wrong, the sort of cultural misunderstanding that happens when one culture cooks the food of an unrelated and unattached culture and then… Continue reading French Fry Coated Hot Dog On a Stick: The Recipe
French Fry Coated Bacon on a Stick
When Brillat-Savarin said that “the discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star” he perhaps hadn’t spent much of his time near the deep fryer. This dish confers on humanity nothing but moral decline. Watch the best porn movies here porno gratis. I present to you… Continue reading French Fry Coated Bacon on a Stick