Category: South East Asian
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Hanoi: Ginger Chicken
This post is a continuation from Hanoi: The Food. To print a hard copy of the recipe in this post, use the Print button at the top right, then select the font size and whether or not photos are required. A four-hour session at the Hanoi Cooking Centre was included as part of our…
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Hanoi: The Food
This post is a continuation from Hanoi: The Sights. We name certain restaurants and establishments in some blog posts simply because we enjoyed them, not for promotional reasons. While the traffic is one dominating feature of Vietnam, food is another: there seem to be food outlets and street-sellers everywhere. And there are markets, of…
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Hanoi: The Sights
This post is a continuation of our Twelve Day Food Tour Of Vietnam. When you arrive in Hanoi you are more likely to experience bedlam – heaps of it – before you find peacefulness. Friends who have visited Vietnam will have warned you about the traffic, the extraordinary number of motor scooters and the wave…
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Twelve Day Food Tour Of Vietnam
In late October 2017 we embarked on a food explorer tour of Vietnam organised by Peregrine Travel. There would be eight of us in the group. We started the trip in Hanoi in the north and then travelled south, finishing in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and the Mekong Delta. For the type of trip…
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Steamboat – Malaysian Inspired!
This post is from an article we wrote for Club Marine magazine in 1997. The food shots date from that period too. (Use the Print button at the top of this page for a hard copy or pdf of the recipe in this post.) Many of us are familiar with the Swiss fondue, where bread…
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Made At Home – No. 5 : Three Hot and Spicy Sauces!
Updated Sept 12, 2021 In reading the contents of this post, also check: Food Safety Is Paramount Here we give three recipes for hot and spicy sauces. The last one is a chilli jam – full recipe details and photos are given below. First is an Indian-style fruit sauce-relish-chutney using plums or other stone fruit.…
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Kaffir in the Limelight
If you have the space in your garden or on your balcony, consider obtaining a kaffir lime tree for both looks and flavours. We have had one surviving quite happily in a large planter pot for about ten years. It hasn’t ever grown actual fruit, but we use the leaves frequently, picking them almost as…