Archive for September, 2008
Readings: The disgustingness of Mongolian breakfasts
Wu doesn’t sound easily disgusted–he’s apparently a pro at gagging down deep fried scorpion, duck brains, snake blood and semi-live octopus tentacles. But even he had trouble with the acidic, rock-hard cheese, endless mutton and fermented horse milk of Mongolia.
The Burmese meal: Mandalay
This will sound horrible, but it was the Burma cyclone that inspired our Burmese meal in May. I knew nothing about Burma, I realised, aside from the anger-inducing stories that had been coming out of the country for months; they were now peaking, with grim post-cyclone photographs in every paper. So when a visit [...]
Spotted: Singapore chili crab
Ever since I heard about last year’s Singapore Chilli Crab Festival, I’ve wondered about the dish and why it deserves its own beer company-sponsored two-day celebration. Matthew, Karol and I headed to this year’s festival on the last weekend of August, and found out that the crab in question is very different from any crab [...]
The (South) Korean meal: Kaya
One of my first encounters with Korean food was the sight of a wondrous, clattering walnut-cake machine steaming up the windows of a small bakery in Toronto’s Koreatown. As a child, I had a brief fascination with food machines, drawing up blueprints for all manner of Heath Robinson contraptions—so this walnut creature made a [...]
Readings: UK delicacies
The Guardian has a list of 10 regional UK dishes and where to eat them, which, as a transplanted Canadian, I was very interested to see. London is nowhere on the list. Doesn’t our pie and mash count?
(For the record, I have had amazing Yorkshire puddings at The Lord Stanley and pretty good Northern Irish [...]
