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
Travel Writing 101: Date the embassy “chick”
Amazon.com Widgets Welcome to hell, Lonely Planet. “They didn’t pay me enough to go (to) Columbia (sic),” “I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating – an intern in the Colombian Consulate. “They don’t pay enough for what they expect the authors to do.” Thomas Kohnstamm,… Continue reading Travel Writing 101: Date the embassy “chick”
Support local (Khmer) hip hop
Stuart Isett has followed up his superlative photographic work on Khmer street gangs with shots of Cambodian b-boy collective Tiny Toones, and this time there’s some fundraising going on. The parallel with the plot to Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is too uncanny for me to not make a mention of this event. If you’re in… Continue reading Support local (Khmer) hip hop
F-Shed at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
At 8:30am this morning, in the moment before the sun rose above the cloud cover
Poorism
Bangkok’s Lebua hotel, which is organizing the dinner, is no stranger to publicity – or to Michelin-starred chefs. Last year, it put on a decadent feast billed as the meal of a lifetime for $25,000 a head. Six three-star Michelin chefs were flown in from Europe to cook the 10-course meal, each plate paired with… Continue reading Poorism