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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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Hello, Kuala Lumpur.

April 5, 2010

Hello, Petronas Towers. Hello, Chinatown. But most importantly, HELLO BREAKFAST!! I’ve arrived in KL and this morning went for a wander in Chinatown and got some pork mee in soup for breakfast at a cafe… I diligently wrote the name and the address of the cafe down on the back of a ticket stub so [...]

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Penang’s street sweets

April 3, 2010

Muah Chee, bought on the corner in front of the Goddess of Mercy Temple.  These were yum.  They are glutinous rice balls (which I’m usually not a fan of), covered in chopped toasted peanuts and a dusting of sugar. Apom Manis, bought from a street stall at night on the corner of Lebuh Chulia and [...]

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Absorbing Georgetown

April 3, 2010

I’ve been tackling Georgetown in Malaysia using one of my tried and tested strategies… the absorption method. I’m not talking about cooking rice. Just eating it. I still haven’t been to most of the tourist landmarks and frankly I don’t care. But I’ve been to the museum of history and wandered every street of the [...]

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Tales of Bali Nasi Campur

April 2, 2010

Nasi Campur at Warung Melati in Legian No… I’m not back in Bali.  But a story I wrote while I was there just got published in the Jakarta Globe.  You should hop on over and read it… Here’s a sample: “Something about being in Ubud seems to flick my switch to “hippie mode” on. It [...]

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