July 31, 2005
Delia's Corned Beef Hash Rocks!
Corned-beef Hash with Fried Eggs
It's not often I wake up on a Sunday morning with the inspiration to cook something I'd seen on a TV cooking show. Then again it's not often I buy something as expensive as corned beef in this country, at 160 baht a tin this wasn't a cheap one. It's also not often that I'm so impressed with something I've cooked that I feel the urge to blog it.
If you do anything this week, try this awesome breakfast/lunch/dinner item out. Spectacularly nice, and easy to cook too.
May 23, 2005
Naked Sushi Banned
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China outlaws 'naked sushi' meals
Saw this on CSI...amazed that it actrually exists...don't you get pubes over the sushi?
May 17, 2005
Food glorious food.
The top 50 things every foodie should do
Yum, yum....even if you can actually afford white truffles on scrambled eggs or albino sturgeon caviar on a blini with creme fraiche, you can always slip into a virtual fantasy world and read this.
March 26, 2005
Coke-tastic
No really this is a mine of useful information associated with our favourite brown corporate liquid that used to be made from cocaine. You might otherwise like to pretend I didn't send you to a shitty tripod hosted site with some of the most unimaginative design I've ever seen.
Ah well, sometimes content is king on the Interweb.
August 11, 2004
Thai Food Links
Miang Kam is one of those off the wall Thai foods that defies description. It's a DiY leaf wrap, with dried coconut, cubed lime, chillies, dried shrimp and sweet fish sauce. Really tastey stuff.
Post inspired from a nice bunch of Thai Food links on Grow-a-brain
July 25, 2004
Do you feel lucky punk?
Fantastic and novel gift idea. A box of delicious looking praline chocolates...but no; one of them contains what the Thai's call a ratshit chillie. Ouch ouch ouch. Sounds like a fun party game anyway.
In a similar vein, check out Shocking Roulette, where up to 4 people insert their finger into a small device which chooses it's "victim" at random and delivers a harmless shock via 3 AAA batteries. Apparently great for deciding those important things in life like who gets the next round in, or who's turn it is to do the washing up.
One photo on there even pictures people inserting tongues instead of their fingers.
Via Farkleberries
Silly Icecream Flavours
The Spaghetti Ice Cream Company.
Mmmmm mmmmm.
Also see...Lasangna Icecream and Asparagas Icecream
June 03, 2004
X-Mite Comparison
This old arguments runs down strict national fronts. Namely the British with Marmite and the Aussies with Vegemite. I've never heard of Promite but it's got sugar in and sounds disgusting.
It's probably worth mentioning that all of these products are made from yeast extracts and are not that different, but for kids brought up on one, the other just WILL NOT do. This obviously puts me in the Marmite camp. Vegemite just doesn't have the flavour.
May 25, 2004
The World's Most Addictive Fruit
Yay! It's mangosteen season, and I've spend the last week putting as many of them into my oversized gut as I can before the ridiculously short season is over. Kan and I have eaten 4kg in the last 2 days!
Imagine if you can, a fruit which looks like a manky beetroot on the outside, but has these amazing translucent melt in the mouth segments inside which taste like a cross between a peach and a strawberry. Utterly amazing.
The funny thing is, the dodgier they look on the outside, and some look positively diseased with this yellowy milky sap blotched everywhere, the better they generally they are on the inside.
Pure heaven! Fully deserving of the title 'The Queen of Fruit'...possibly more so than her husband the King of Fruit AKA the very stinky, spikey and scarey durian, which I can't stand and doesn't deserve anymore of my blogspace.
May 24, 2004
Today's Quease-Inducing Moment
Brain Sandwiches come via the J-walk blog.
Sorry but this is just horrible. I've eaten some whacky things in my time, and last weekend's yellow ants and their eggs in lime and chillie took the biscuit (quite nice tho'), but battered cows brain in a bun? Sorry this is Mad Cow Disease fodder. Looks disturbingly like an oversized Chicken Mc Sandwich. Come to think about it...it could be a Chicken McSandwich.
April 20, 2004
Das Fuhrer Taste Of It
Mark Thomas, the British political activist and comedian is upto something again. The Coca Cola company is getting a bit of a hard time in the UK, what with their bottled water Desani being rumbled for being tap water plus a few chemicals, and the resignation if it's CEO Douglas Daft over lying about export figures. Well, Mr Thomas' plan is simply to kick the big rotten multinational whilst it's down and promote the fact that it's German subsiduary was a very active supporter of the Nazi regime in the 1930's and '40s. Of course most of the imagery of this era has 'gone missing', and so MT has asked for Photoshop recreations of adverts from this time.