Around the world, one dish at a time.
Unbowed by my experiences with yak butter tea, a flavour which, while not as bad as you’d think, definitely falls under the rubric of “acquired” (I’ll write it up for you at some point, I promise), I decided to brave another Tibetan winter warmer: hot …
Asian noodle soups are one of the great joys of travelling South-East Asia – and, for that matter, Asia as a whole. Cultures as far afield as Tibet and Japan have their own unique noodle soups, and in many parts of Asia, the noodle soup …
You don’t have to spend long in Nepal to realise that momo make the world go round: delicious, meaty dumplings in a super-light dough, they’re reminiscent of the northern Chinese jiaozi, and arguably ancestrally related to all the filled pastas of Europe from Turkish mantı …
What does a British pound buy you, foodwise? In most parts of the world, a lot. In fact, even in Western Europe you can feed yourself on junk food for under a quid. In this series, I’m going to be finding food you can buy …
Babi guling is one of the great joys of any trip to Bali and quite possibly the ultimate breakfast dish. At least for any fan of Vitamin P. This succulent, spicy, endlessly mouthwatering take on the classic sucking (not suckling!) pig is one of the …
If there is one dish that the Greeks do better than anyone in the world, it’s octopus salad. And, after several dismal, dry and bland, attempts at octopus salad in Turkey (like samphire, this is an area that Turkish cooks just seem to get wrong), …
Raffles Hotel, Singapore, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this month. (This despite the fact that the hotel didn’t open until 1 December 1887.) And, perhaps predictably, they’re celebrating with an anniversary cocktail, the 1887, based on the iconic Singapore Sling, with added champers, reduced pinkness …
If you stuck to the tourist trail in Greece, you could be forgiven for thinking that Greek cuisine, in its entirety, comprised souvlaki, moussaka, Greek salad, stuffed vine leaves from a tin, rubbery kalamari, watery tzatsiki, chips and over-priced, under-sized fish. And that would be …
Egyptian food does not have the world’s greatest reputation. Which is, frankly, a little unfair. Sure, a lot of Egyptian food is, fundamentally, Turkish, the staples that you’ll find all over what was once the Ottoman Empire, from the Middle East to the Balkans. The …
Turkish ice cream is different. Not just because, in the tourist towns, there are men in costumes working magic tricks with it for the kids. Though that’s pretty special. “Opa!” they cry, as they whisk a wodge of icecream away from the cone, leaving a …