In what is fast becoming a tradition, my local market, Footscray Market, has failed to post opening hours anywhere online. Opening hours for the market over the Christmas/New Year’s period 2012 are: Monday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Thursday 27 December: 7:00am – 6:00pm Friday 28 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday 29… Continue reading Footscray Market – Opening Hours, Christmas 2012
Category: Location
Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies
I’ve updated my Australian Food Blog list: it will forever be incomplete but the best that I can do. I’ve decided to stop tracking bloggers who receive free meals, cash or other incentives in exchange for writing posts because I can’t keep up with them and for the most part don’t ever read them. It’s… Continue reading Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies
Restoran Siti Fatimah, Langkawi
Self portrait with nasi campur at Restoran Siti Fatimah, Langkawi
How to introduce your two year old to Malaysian street food.
1. Buy a street food. 2. Hand over the chopsticks. So, I had a kid and thought that I should mention it for when she’s old enough to ask about why she’s not in any of the blog posts, which will be soon now that she can negotiate devices with screens and understands conceptually that… Continue reading How to introduce your two year old to Malaysian street food.
#WEFO T-Shirt
A while back there was a discussion amongst West Footscray locals about the etymology of the suburb’s abbreviation “wefo”, a discussion started by its commodification by this $65 cushion from design gallery Post Industrial Design. I’d first seen the suburb referred to as WeFo in an email from November 2008 so the abbreviation’s history predates… Continue reading #WEFO T-Shirt
Eggs, Penang
The logistics of food is endlessly interesting when you step outside the reach of the robotic hands of supermarket distribution. Along with the produce, transport is what adds a degree of regional variation to most markets. One of my most enduring memories of one market in Cambodia is seeing a Toyota Camry, whose backseat had… Continue reading Eggs, Penang
Entrance of Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi, Penang
Established in 1810, Cheah Kongsi is the oldest clan temple in Penang.
Anglia Shandy
“Brewer”:Guinness Anchor Berhad (Diageo/Asia Pacific Breweries-Heineken). One of my dreams was to become Asia’s leading reviewer of canned shandy, the worst thing to happen to beer since the discovery of shandy. Today that dream is horribly realised. GAB Says: “The real shandy. Malaysia’s pioneer shandy, since 1978, recently took on a new and refreshing image… Continue reading Anglia Shandy