Clearly we loved our time in Margaret River so much that when we finally decided to break our no-travel bubble, we chose a repeat visit to the region. Exactly three years after our first trip in November 2019, as this is also our anniversary period, we spent a magical three weeks last year exploring Southwest […]
“The Great Southern Wine Region in Australia? Oh, you mean Barossa?” I replied, with an ever-so-slight conspirational nod, thinking of the bombastic Shiraz that the region is familiar for. “No. I mean, the Great Southern, that is, the great Southwestern region in Australia,” she countered, clearly miffed that I was confusing the South Australian region […]
“Cree, cree, cree” went the cicadas, everywhere we went. The ubiquitous sound of these insects is the soundtrack to Provence in summer. They start to ring in your ears, and become one with your subconsciousness that you almost stop hearing them altogether. And the same with my eyes. I just have to close them and […]
{Update Jan 2023: I returned to Margaret River wine region in November 2022, check out Part 2 here} So you’re off to Margaret River, you have 3 or 4 days, there are over a 100 wine producers around, and you’re wondering which to shortlist. Let me just say straight off the bat that if you […]
Without a doubt, Northbridge is THE area if you’re looking for hip, culturally-diverse places, the type of establishments with names such as Lucky Chan’s Laundry, No Mafia and Bangkok Brothers. Rooftop cocktail bars face off with strip clubs and the streets do fill up with youth in various states of inebriation, but skip over the […]
Char is all about fine dining with a view. A view of the twinkling lights of Bangkok, a city known for its rooftop bars. While Char’s rooftop bar itself is worth a visit, despite its rather diminutive size, the restaurant below is where I like to hang out in air-conditioned comfort. It was made all […]
Ya ok, when the safest choice on the menu is the bone marrow, you know you’re in for an offally good adventure. Pun intended. 100 Mahaseth showcases the hearty nature of Isaan cuisine (the North and Northeastern parts of Thailand) with a focus on offal and off-cuts. That said, not to worry, you’re not going […]
Burgundy is the dream, isn’t it? Oenophiles, what can I say – the best wines (in my biased opinion) come from Burgundy and foodies, welcome to the land of hearty, French country cooking. For my recent trip to Burgundy in July, I spent hours researching on the best places to eat. Considering that I had […]
Just how much can a pigeon tell you about a restaurant? In the case of Ma Cuisine, quite a lot, it would seem. That one dish alone sums up the differences between the two Ma Cuisines in the world – in Singapore and Beaune, Burgundy. I was planning to write a story of a father […]
Paul Bocuse. Any gastronome would be familiar with this name, albeit in varying degrees and favour. There are those who regard him with much reverence for showcasing the culinary prowess of France, and there are those to whom he was just another French chef with an unhealthy obsession for les regles de la cuisine Francaise. […]