Ah to live in China, something I am now approaching my 13th year doing. When I tell people that I live there, they almost immediately say how lucky I must be. And how much I must enjoy the food. But let’s deal with the elephant in the room right away. Chinese day to day food […]
Fast Food
Street Food Hanoi – Fusion foods AND Drinks
Chicken or beef; Apple or Android; Batman or Superman; straight or Canadian: the world is full of choices that amount to absolutes, and for me when the question was ‘Saigon or Hanoi?’ ‘South Vietnam or Vietnam?’ the choice was easy. Saigon is a city that truly does not sleep whilst Hanoi, well it sleeps, and […]
Saved by Mala Tang – Lunching in Dandong
OK – so I seriously need to get something off of my chest, and that is Chinese food. Tell people that you live in China, as I have done for the last 12 years and one of the first things they say (particularly when you are in the UK) is how great the food must […]
Taking a holiday to Sinuiju – and Street Food
I could dress this up in a million different ways. I could say it was a research trip, or perhaps that I wanted to check out a new product. But however I cast it up, the fact is that after guiding a tour to North Korea I, by choice, spent my own money to go […]
Jollibee in Philippines! What is Jollibee?
Let’s be honest! The Philippines don’t exactly have the reputation for having the worlds best cuisine. Especially when your neighbors are Thailand, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. This makes putting down your culinary stamp that every bit harder. But it has JOLLIBEE! And to add insult to injury, whilst countries such as Vietnam had the […]