I’ve been in Jordan for a few days. I miss polystyrene clamshell breakfast.
Category: Cuisine
posts listed by national or regional cuisine
The taste of test tube meat (an interview with Oron Catts)
(Originally published ‘The taste of test tube meat’, http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107961/the-taste-of-test-tube-meat [04 June 2008]. I’m republishing it because SBS have taken it down and it gets a shout out in Catts, Oron & Zurr, Ionat. (2013). Disembodied Livestock: The Promise of a Semi-Living Utopia. Parallax. 19. 10.1080/13534645.2013.752062. I think it might have been the first published description… Continue reading The taste of test tube meat (an interview with Oron Catts)
Great carbs of the Western Suburbs: Pandesal
The history of the colonisation of Asia is written in its bread. Pandesal, the national breakfast bread of the Philippines, was borne of Spanish colonial rule but processed by the USA. The bread came from the more Spanish pan de suelo, crusty “bread of the floor” cooked on the clay base of the oven from… Continue reading Great carbs of the Western Suburbs: Pandesal
Soyfoo Anh Long, Braybrook
Soyfoo Anh Long is a tofu shop on the vertiginous northern edge of Braybrook that drops into the Maribyrnong river valley, amongst the wrecking yards that advertise on hastily scrawled “Cash For Cars” signs stapled to a power pole. Their precast concrete panel factory was once neighboured by a business called “Hair Extension Online” who… Continue reading Soyfoo Anh Long, Braybrook
How Google Recipe Search ruins food: hoisin sauce edition.
Because I’m a food idiot, I like making sauces from scratch. Why not hoisin sauce? With a general knowledge of what’s in hoisin sauce (it’s soybean paste-based and has historically followed Cantonese migrants around South East Asia), I Googled “hoisin sauce recipe”. Here’s what was served up: 6 out of 9 based on peanut butter,… Continue reading How Google Recipe Search ruins food: hoisin sauce edition.
This photo of suggestive bananas has sat in my “Drafts” for 6 years
I took this photo in Japan in 2010 and ever since it has been sitting in my drafts awaiting a lewd caption. Let this be an object lesson in my abject failure to craft a worthy pun.
How the Michelin Star became the kiss of death for Hong Kong’s street food
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Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2015
I’ve now been blogging for 10 years. In that entire time the Footscray Market, one of Melbourne’s biggest wet markets, has never published their Christmas opening hours online. This post marks the 7th year of my Christmas vigil to celebrate it. Here are the opening hours as published on a photocopy on the door: As… Continue reading Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2015