Category Archives: food
Moor please
“Are you grossly overweight?” asks the woman on the other end of the phone. “I hope you don’t think I’m being rude but people today are all so unfit. They do nothing but sit in front of their goggleboxes and … Continue reading
Breakfast
After not having blogged for weeks, it seems crazy that the instrument of my return is the humble croissant. And not even a French one at that. Just the common or garden Shoreditch variety, so much beloved by those high-haired … Continue reading
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How to make Vietnamese Spring Rolls
My favourite part of any Vietnamese meal is the humble spring roll (Cha Goi). Mined meat, vegetables and herbs all mixed up and rolled up in rice paper and then deep fried…twice. Yum, yum, I say. So I went to … Continue reading
The price of fish
Every year the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK collects the prices of 650 goods to calculate the official retail price index and Consumer Price Index (CPI), which give it an indication of inflation levels and household spending. … Continue reading
Luang Prabang: The good, the cheap and the ugly
A few days in Luang Prabang will doubtless be one of the highlights of any trip to Indo-china. A couple of weeks there allows you to sample most of what the city has to offer in terms of sights, excursions, … Continue reading
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Rice to be you…to be you rice?
Lao food is almost unique in Asian cooking as it uses ‘sticky’ (glutinous) rice as its main staple for all meals rather than – as in other countries –just desserts. This type of rice is named for its high starch … Continue reading
In the Laap of luxury
Laap is a Laotian salad made with minced meat, finely chopped long beans and a number of piquant herbs and spices that give it a salty, yet sweet and lemony flavour. It’s delicious, tasty and – best of all – … Continue reading
Thai cooking for morons
The great philospher Socrates once said ‘Wisest is he who knows he does not know’. If this is true it makes me a very wise person indeed when it comes to Thai cooking. I had always thought I could throw … Continue reading
