a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in cookery, cookery books, cooking, dining out, food, food & travel, Japan, London, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Oct 29th, 2009
The monthly summary for October – It was my turn again to preview the Wikio UK Gastronomy top 20 rankings for October. If you’re a UK food blogger and you’re not on the list of 100 blogs, then all you have to do is submit your blog to Wikio (details on their site). Out and [...]
Posted in cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, Japan, Japanese, recipe, traveleating on Oct 26th, 2009
Everyday Harumi is Japanese housewife turned cookery writer Harumi Kurihara‘s latest book, produced in the UK and photographed by über-food photographer Jason Lowe. I bought an earlier book, Harumi’s Japanese Home Cooking, a couple of months ago, and to be honest, wasn’t overly impressed with it. No matter how many times I went through the book, [...]
Posted in dining out, food, food & travel, restaurants, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, traveleating on Oct 22nd, 2009
My first guest blogger is fellow foodie and über-photographer Kang from LondonEater, who kindly agreed to write about his recent (and first) gastrotrip to Taipei, Taiwan. When I visited Taipei, I fell in love with the food, but I’ve written very little about my visit, as I wasn’t blogging back then. Taipei is also on [...]
Posted in dining out, food, Italian, Italy, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Oct 19th, 2009
I was in Venice for only one day last year, which left no time to explore the local bacari or traditional taverns of the city. It was also so overrun with tourists that I was quite happy to return to Bologna at the end of the day. However, a bacaro by the name of Polpo [...]
Posted in dining out, food, food & travel, London, Malaysian, restaurant review, restaurants, Singaporean, Straits, traveleating on Oct 15th, 2009
Sedap, which means ‘delicious’ in Malay, serves Chinese-Malaysian fusion food, also known as Straits or ‘Nyonya‘ cuisine. There aren’t many ”Nyonya’ restaurants in London. Kiasu I visited once but over two years ago, so a revisit is on the cards. At Nyonya, which has closed down, I only had a snack, so I can’t comment [...]
