What’s your excuse for not trying Filipino food?
Fact A: My parents moved to Sharjah in the mid 70’s, so pretty much all my soggy diaper years, and
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Confucius say: if you drown at China Sea, you become fat.
We all ate like little big fat piggies at China Sea last week. Six people at the table, twelve dishes,
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Forkfuls of deep-fried sticky sweet salty peanutty goodness at Singapore Deli.
Anyone remember that warped idea of mine at the start of the year to create a Best Seven of 2011
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A plateful of summer at Mango Tree, Souk al Bahar.
I ate this Thai salmon appetizer the other day that catapulted me into summer. Not Dubai summer – that’s plain
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Know what I love about Korean BBQ?
1. Korean BBQ smells divine, a fact that I happily announced to the waiters the second I stepped foot into
When things don’t turn out as perfect as pie.
Last week, I was so inspired by the Thai cooking class with my fellow foodies at ICCA , that I
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Cooking up a Thai feast with my fellow foodies at the International Center for Culinary Arts
Whoever coined the phrase “too many cooks spoil the broth” had evidently never been to a group cooking class. He
Fried chicken and condensed milk
You know those crumbs that get left behind on your plate after you’ve eaten something deep-fried, like hash browns for
My thwarted quest for life-changing prawns in Hua Hin
A day before I left for a friend’s wedding in Thailand last week, I frantically googled for local places to
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My quest for the unreal deal, only at Mainland China in Hyderabad.
Yin and I were out on a quest for Indianized Chinese food in Hyderabad. We wanted the totally fake, totally bastardized
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Lunch at our college-favourite Malaysian haunt: Penang in Philly’s Chinatown
No matter that I hadn’t made it to the countless cheese steak joints, pizza parlours, and ethnic food trucks on
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A place called ‘Yum!’
Yum! was not really on my restaurant ‘must-try’ list. Restaurants with exclamation marks in their names or gimmicky-sounding unoriginal names