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Entrance of Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi, Penang
Established in 1810, Cheah Kongsi is the oldest clan temple in Penang. Related posts: Penang street life Tek Sen, Penang Three feet high and rising
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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...
View ArticleFood Idea Generator
Are you a chef who has hit a creative wall? A home cook who has prepared everything that a Nathan Myhrvold-led team can throw at you? Now that Ferran Adria is out of business, surely a machine can take...
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#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...
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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...
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Restoran Siti Fatimah, Langkawi
Self portrait with nasi campur at Restoran Siti Fatimah, Langkawi Related posts: Parachute Foodblogging 2: Restoran Nasi Kandar KL Three feet high and rising How to eat an island
View ArticleAustralian 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...
View ArticleDeactivating almonds: foodie backlash and the commitment to food
Overcommitted. If you’ve been on Twitter over the past week in Australia, the slightly bewildering hashtag #activatedalmonds has been in ascendency. Pete Evans, chef, reality television judge and...
View ArticleHeirloom Tomato Name Generator
I like building random things because it satisfies my innate need to make lists of synonyms. At the tweeted request of Steve Cumper, here’s a heirloom tomato name generator. If you were a delicious...
View ArticleFootscray Market – Opening Hours, Christmas 2012
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:...
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How to make money with your food blog in 2013
Selling eggs near Russian Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia I’ve been trying to update this post for about a year. My first attempt ended in me saying that you shouldn’t bother trying to make money from...
View ArticleAmbient intimacy
While I’m working for Tourism Victoria, I’m not writing Victorian restaurant reviews or about Victorian product more generally on this blog. This is very much self-imposed. There is too much scope for...
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Goodbye, Rosemary
I pulled out a rosemary hedge that’s been growing down the side of my house for a few decades, in about two hours. Not even the keenest lamb cook can eat that much rosemary and I still have a massive...
View ArticleTwo links on the cult of authenticity
The quest for authenticity is an ugly thing. Will there never be an end to the spectacle of (usually white, middle-class) people draping themselves in exotic tribal fabrics, bribing sherpas to haul...
View ArticleA trending history of Australian home-baked goods
The relative Google search volumes for various popular Australian cake recipes. Related posts: Rotisserie = home Cold smoking at home: Convert your Weber for $10 How influential are Australian food...
View ArticleI like your old stuff better than your new stuff.
I get this, often. Writing was more of a priority when I was virtually unemployed in Cambodia with no responsibility whatsoever rather than holding down a full time job that I enjoy and being a...
View ArticlePhnomenon
Sent: 10 April 2005 It’s day seven of CNN becoming Pope Channel, and M and I are rapidly settling in the expat Cambodian lifestyle. Fairly unsurprisingly, Phnom Penh is absolutely different to what I...
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Ratspotting
Originally sent: 12 May 2005. About this series. I spotted my first rat on the way to work this morning which was the size of a small pony. It was headed in the direction of my house. Things bode ill....
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“However good the illusion, would anyone really mistake Moto’s BURGER with cheese for the fast-food familiar? No more than one would confuse an Andy Warhol silk screen of Campbell’s soup cans with...
View Article“They can’t drink the alcohol or woo the ladies”
Originally sent: 27 June 2005 About this series I’m in Battambang: which is famous across Indochina for its decrepit colonial French architecture, raunchy statues of garudas having their way with...
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