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Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Washington DC

August 19, 2010

My first American food post and my first post about Washington DC! Here goes. Even though I’m mostly preoccupied with househunting at the moment, I have been eating.  Some of it has been purely for survival i.e. sandwiches from 7-11 (I really need a house so I don’t have to eat this stuff!).   But I’ve [...]

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Scones at the park

July 26, 2010

Savoury scones from the famous Beechworth Bakery’s Albury store ($2.90… very delicious!).  We also had a piece of bright red Jelly slice, straight from childhood birthday parties.  It was like the bakery had directly imported it from the 80′s. I didn’t end up getting the time to go down to the pretty colonial-era goldrush town [...]

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Street Kitchen, Solo

July 21, 2010

A street vendor selling mie ayam noodles in Solo, Central Java, near the Karaton. Right behind the fence there was a paddock full of pungent goats who kept sticking their noses through gaps in the tarpaulin, trying to get some lunch from diners and making lots of noise when they were denied a meal. Below [...]

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Wet Coconut Cakes

July 5, 2010

These locally made “KM 0 wet coconut cakes” were on the tables at a little eatery in Ipoih, Pulau Weh. Though a soggy cake doesn’t sound good, perfectly moist cakes are… these little cakes were beautifully moist and filled with fresh grated coconut. I took a few home for after dinner snacks. I love that [...]

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Melbournelicious: Three Bags Full, Abbotsford

June 26, 2010

I made a whirlwind trip to Melbourne earlier this week to go to the US Consulate to get my visa to study in Washington D.C. I’m APPROVED!  Yay! But that wasn’t the only yay.  The food in Melbourne is fantastic and I was lucky enough to have a delish breakfast with my lovely friend Tilda [...]

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The best crab of my life

June 8, 2010

Let me tell you the story of the best crab I’ve eaten in my life.  Twice. Lol. In Banda Aceh, just across from the Medan Hotel, there is a little area of food stalls under a pavilion.  Down the back of this cluster, directly across the road from the Selera Kita Restaurant, stands a stall [...]

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Aceh’s delicious dishes

May 27, 2010

I wrote a little bit earlier about Aceh’s absolutely delicious coffee shop snacks and some delicious Aceh food that I ate in Jakarta. But I ate even more Acehnese food in Aceh (derrrr obviously) and WOW ZOMFG it truly is one of my favourite cuisines in Indonesia. The top picture shows a serving of ayam [...]

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Welcome to Banda Aceh… and its coffee shops

May 18, 2010

Aceh.  You’ve heard of it, surely?  It’s famous for quite a few things. 1. Tsunami.  In the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, just a bit over five years ago now, some 70,000 people in Aceh province lost their lives and the capital Banda Aceh was pretty much totally trashed by the earthquake and huge wave that [...]

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Cats and kids: stories from a kitchen of good curry

May 14, 2010

I was on one of my walks through Tuk-Tuk, the town on the peninsula of the island in the middle of North Sumatra’s majestic Lake Toba, when I decided to stop for some lunch. There are so many cafes in the little town and during quiet season most of them are empty. Nearly every house [...]

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Ion Singapore Food Court

May 10, 2010

Every visit I’ve made to Singapore in the last 1.5 years has usually involved visa runs for Indonesia. We would meet our agent at Wheelock Place, and across from there, a huge shopping mall called Ion was under construction (above). However, on this visit, it was finally open for business… and it is a rather [...]

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Depot Family Masakan Cina Warung, Surabaya

May 9, 2010

The food at this little warung right outside my hotel in Surabaya was so good, I would feel guilty if I didn’t write about it.  Depot Family Masakan Cina, on Jl Ganteng Besar, just outside the Pavilojoen Hotel (which is an excellent budget option in the city) is simple delicious. I went there on multiple [...]

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Bits and bobs

May 8, 2010

Contrary to popular belief, I am doing some freelancing on the road.  It’s the type of freelancing I would class as “hardly investigative”, but it’s been keeping me occupied and badly paid, just like if I had a real journalism job. So here’s a few links to some recent writings. 1.  Remember, ages ago, I [...]

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Tea right at the source

May 6, 2010

Mount Lawu, around 30km from Solo city in Central Java, is covered with farmland and tea plantations along its plunging valleys.  Women pick the leaves that are just right from the plants, working hard long days outdoors, scrambling up and down the slopes carrying their pickings on a basket on their back. Along the roads [...]

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Milas Vegetarian Restaurant, Yogyakarta

April 12, 2010

I’m currently in Yogyakarta, for the third time during my Indonesia stint, because I’m attending language school where I’m hoping to have my terrible Indonesian grammar whipped into shape by the team of helpful teachers at Realia Language School.  The teachers can amazingly write everything upside down on pieces of butchers paper so that a [...]

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Yogyakarta’s special fried chicken

April 10, 2010

If you thought fried chicken was just an American thing and just another obesity-inducing fast food export from the Yanks for the rest of the world, think again. Yogyakarta in Indonesia’s Central Java is known for its fried chicken or ayam goreng, and in no way is it just ripping off that colonel from Kentucky. [...]

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