First thing I have to say is golly it’s nice to be on holiday. It’s been a long 12 months and when I do take the opportunity to visit somewhere different I usually end up having to go by myself,…
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my name is yum-yum
This is an inspiration: the never seconds blog, written by a Scottish primary school girl. I’m a bit late to the party because it looks like that in less than two months it exploded and has been negotiated out of…
day at the rat races
What I’m enjoying this week: Bald Guy brand Chinese pickles. Only available: from china. I love tearing open a new packet and getting that limey chinese pickle smell. J-e is in Tsingtao for a few weeks for work and has…
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lady n the tramp
Here we have the South Korean dish, budae chiggae (부대찌개). It translates roughly as army camp stew and dates back to the times of the Korean war, when local folk didn’t have much to eat so they’d go trash-can diving…
shabooh shoobah, shabu shabu
Shabu shabu is, apparently, originally a Japanese thing. But when it comes something as amorphous as throwing bits of food into boiling liquid then pulling it out and eating it, who can really say where it originated. They have a…
deung byo hye jang guk
In an effort to provide some sort of world public-service food shall now be talked about here. Korean food is sometimes a little like Chinese food and sometimes a little like Japanese food and really quite different to western food.…
How’s this for a lunch? The Indian food here has been totally sweet, and by sweet I mean excellent, and not necessarily sweet. Although one side-dish I had yesterday of, I think pumpkin was sweet. It was sweet~! What I’ve…
happy? Happy in Paraguay.
While I’m on lists here are some other things I’m enjoying. Friendly old people! Folks who don’t scowl, look you in the eye when passing and even say hello sometimes. Small talk at the counter when purchasing items. I’ve completely…
The customer orders carrots.
Here is a list of foods I am enjoying while in australia that are either unavailable in korea, or are very expensive. cherries mango dried banana coles supermarket standard apple pie (w/cream) fish n chips ‘black forest’ tim-tams hummus, tzaziki,…
abdomen and some dried fish
I was intending to post something yesterday, since, apparently a decade clicked over. But I was busy packing and now today I’m waiting for a transfer at KLIA which stands for kuala lumpa international airport. Honestly I wouldn’t mind if…
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