7:00am in front of the GPO, Melbourne, Australia
Category: Location
Khao soi street view
I’m sure that when people develop mapping applications, their idea is not for people like me to use them to point out where you can get the best khao soi in Chiang Mai. But that’s what I’m doing. Promising startup MapJack has started mapping cities from street level (just like Google Street View) and their… Continue reading Khao soi street view
Five links on ummm…Sunday
Sorry…I made a quick trip to Sydney and forgot that I was meant to be posting this on Friday. Enjoy your long weekend, Australians. We must hunt the elephants to save them – "Sustainable use" doesn’t make for great bumper stickers, but "I shoot ferals" does. Food trends: Wet Market Diplomacy – Celebrity chef and… Continue reading Five links on ummm…Sunday
Hue street life
Cycling about the Citadel in Hue, Vietnam. Home of the Nguyen dynasty and the site of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive. I was looking for a decent shot of the front of Ben Thanh market to illustrate my faux Ben Thanh market post but it doesn’t appear that I have one. My “sites… Continue reading Hue street life
I can’t believe it’s not Chợ Bến Thành
There is nothing like a high degree of architectural verisimilitude to brighten up my day, be it a Big Banana, Giant Merino or in this case, a fake Ben Thanh Market building in the middle of Melbourne. This model of Saigon’s Ben Thanh Market is so accurate that the clocks are all set to the… Continue reading I can’t believe it’s not Chợ Bến Thành
Sausage Fancier
Once you’ve seen how sausages are made, you’ll want to eat nothing but sausages. This was my first impression of home sausage making; my second was that making sausages is possibly my true calling and that my university loan debts could have been better spent on a meat mincer and practicing the barbecuing arts rather… Continue reading Sausage Fancier
Just a small in-joke for my Khmer speaking homies
The falling price of the barang, Kota Bharu, Malaysia
The possibility of a guerrilla garden
In the modern city, horticulture is a transgressive sport. Modern urban developments tend to preclude growing fruit and vegetables as a possibility by offering only dark, windy balconies or paving over backyards, only conceding the mere edges to decorative, inedible shrubbery. The walls of suburban McMansions creep closer to the boundaries of their allotments offering… Continue reading The possibility of a guerrilla garden