It helps to be obsessed by a single dish when you arrive in Saigon. I usually hit up a few of my favourite restaurants (the upmarket street food specialist Quan An Ngon, commercial pho franchise Pho 24 anywhere about town) and then am lost in a sea of choice. There’s bun of almost limitless variety,… Continue reading The Street Sausage of Saigon: Thit Nuong
Category: Location
Hite touts shite stout
Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Scouting about for a stout with no clout? Shout for Hite Stout. There are two things wrong with this stout. Firstly, that it’s black; and secondly, that it is not labelled as “lager” anywhere on the bottle. It is beer at its most deceptive. It’s a brewery’s equivalent of a… Continue reading Hite touts shite stout
Bad Korean food ideas: Meat in a waffle cone
Not a moment passes when I don’t think that the ultimate summer food experience would be to have a cone of gelati in one hand and a cone of grilled steak in the other. And possibly a third hand for an India pale ale. Despite what fast food companies will have us believe, not every… Continue reading Bad Korean food ideas: Meat in a waffle cone
Noryangjin Fish Market, Seoul
Whenever people describe fish markets, they highlight the predawn chaos and the movement and flow of fish as the only ordered element amongst the pandemonium. I’ve been guilty of it myself. At three o’clock in the afternoon, Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul is a bastion of calm. The morning crowds have dispersed along with their… Continue reading Noryangjin Fish Market, Seoul
Korean Street Food Recipes: Hoddeok
Hoddeok is a Winter street food in Korea that is slowly transitioning into year-round fare. In essence, it’s a fried yeast dumpling, flattened to a pancake, with sticky cinnamon sugar centre. From a brief trawl of vendors around Myung-dong, there seemed to be two versions: one fried in a sandwich iron (above) resulting in a… Continue reading Korean Street Food Recipes: Hoddeok
US Department of Defense: The Best Brewers in South Korea
The best beer in South Korea is brewed by the US Armed Forces in Yongsan Garrison, dead in the centre of Seoul. The base itself is for all intents, a small American town, albeit an American hamlet with the purpose of keeping the North Koreans in North Korea. There’s a hotel, shopping mall, free cinema,… Continue reading US Department of Defense: The Best Brewers in South Korea
How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
After doing the most scant research on the Internet, it seems that although many people mention that the new border crossing between Prek Chak in Cambodia and Xa Xia/Ha Tien in Vietnam is open to foreigners, nobody tells you how to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day or that two of the… Continue reading How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
Hite Exfeel-S: Alcoholic Colonic
Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Beer is not good for you. In large enough quantities, it has the invariable tendency to kill you and thus gussying it up as a health food defies explanation. Labeled as the “Stylish beer with fiber”, Korea’s Hite Exfeel-S attempts to market a beer that is just as good on… Continue reading Hite Exfeel-S: Alcoholic Colonic