It’s no secret that Japan – more specifically, Tokyo – is one of my favourite places in the world to holiday in. Oodles of noodles, conveyor-belt sushi that puts many mid-range and even high-end restaurants in other parts of the world to shame, the lightest, crispest tempura batter, and pastries and confections that of course […]
I MISS MY STOVE. AND I MISS MY BALCONY. MY HOUSE IS FALLING APART AND IT’S DRIVING ME CRAZY. YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD FIX THE CRAZY? PANCAKES. BLUEBERRY PANCAKES. BUT I DON’T HAVE A STOVE SO I CAN’T MAKE PANCAKES, AND THESE PANCAKES ARE SO YUMMY THAT I DON’T WANT TO SETTLE FOR CRAPPY PANCAKES […]
Fun fact: as a kid, one of my (many) nicknames was ‘Chich’, which was short for chicharon – a Filipino snack of deep fried pork rinds. (Variations are also popular in Spain, parts of Latin America, and – more recently – areas of the US and Europe.) I continue to be baffled by this, since […]
One of my favourite vegetables in the world is broccoli. I love it best steamed or quickly stir-fried, the way my mum used to do, with thin slivers of ginger and lightly bathed in sesame oil and oyster sauce, or Cantonese-style with a slightly thickened sauce of minced garlic and a little stock. Baked with […]
Unless I’m throwing a dinner party (where, more often than not, one of the guests has made a request for what I’ll be cooking that evening) or have some intense craving for some dish or other that I’m attempting to satisfy, I’m the sort of person who wanders into supermarkets, markets, grocers and the suchlike […]
