Recipe: Sardine Nanbanzuke
SUNLIGHT. FINALLY. Time to over-optimistically pack away my collection of umpteen-denier black tights. After that, time for something cold and tasty. This is one of my favourite cold dishes – [...]
Recipe: Thai-style glass noodle salad
So while the rest of London heads out to enjoy the sunshine with a pint by the river, I’m a prisoner of my paycheck and spending the evening rifling around [...]
Review: Pizza Pilgrims, Yalla Yalla and Snog
Last week, a bunch of us greedy types were kindly invited by Google Places/Zagat to join Londonist on a street food crawl of Soho. Unfortunately, it coincided with a day [...]
Recipe: Agedashi Tofu
Here’s the first little something from the dusty 70s books: a firm izakaya favourite, agedashi tofu. ‘Izakayas’ are usually loosely translated to ‘taverns’ (presumably by Americans who don’t know what [...]
Mama’s old-school 70s cooking
I was at my parents’ house a couple of weeks ago, rummaging through the garage amongst a pile of cookbooks that my mum was looking to chuck out. Amidst the [...]
Been gone too long…
Apologies for a long absence – it is mostly because in the past month I’ve gone from bumbling along in a rented flat in Elephant and Castle to all of [...]
Review: Mishkin’s
[again, please be prepared for some truly shocking images, courtesy of my slowly dying HTC Desire because we couldn't figure out the shutter length on Will's camera] Oy. I’m currently [...]
March 11th, 2011: some thoughts
In the context of what happened a year ago, this post is totally self-centred and confessional. However, it seems like the best I can do from a perch somewhere in [...]
Happy birthday, Momofuku Ando!
Today would have been the 102nd birthday of Momofuku Ando, the man who gave us instant ramen and Cup Noodles. He died five years ago, but if I had one, [...]
Hina-matsuri: on feminism in Japan
Today is hina-matsuri (雛祭り), otherwise known as Girl’s Day. As per tradition, if you were strolling around Japan you’d see tiered arrangements of dolls in shop windows. The placement orders [...]
