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After hours – Yiwu, China

21 May 2012 China
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It’s about 5° C outside. You’re in a foreign city, you’ve finished work and your feet are sore. It’s about to get dark and you’re feeling a little snacky. What to do? We have two options here: Stay in the hotel and catch the lift downstairs to the restaurant buffet. Rug up, put fresh socks [...]

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A reintroduction – Yiwu, China

7 May 2012 China
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Don’t be fooled by the delicate cherry blossoms. The city of Yiwu far from qualifies as being one of China’s beautiful cities. It’s industrial, it’s bleak, it’s polluted and like many parts of southern China the sky is a lovely shade white; thick with pollutants where after a few days in the city you can [...]

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Manhattan Munchies #2 – random eats in NYC

9 March 2012 Breakfast/Brunch
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Here we have another epic compilation carrying on from where I left off with the previous Manhattan Munchies post. Let’s start with another restaurant by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich - Otto Enoteca Pizzeria. The restaurant sits in the sprawling ground floor of the art deco One Fifth Avenue building and is modelled on an old Italian [...]

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Manhattan Munchies #1 – random eats in NYC

24 February 2012 American
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New York is a place you either love or hate. It’s big, it’s busy it’s fantastic. I can really understand why people say it’s the centre of the universe as when you’re there it almost feels like it is. Everything you need is on the island. Well, almost. Maybe all those bridges are there to keep it [...]

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Union Square Greenmarket – Gramercy, NYC

17 February 2012 he eats New York
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Checking out a growers market in New York was a given and considering this one at Union Square runs over four weekdays it was a little unavoidable. Well, unavoidable for this foodie anyway. On any ordinary day Union Square is part thoroughfare and part relaxation space, shaded by trees, over-run with very friendly squirrels and scattered with [...]

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South Melbourne rambling

28 October 2011 Breakfast/Brunch
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Waking up in my hotel room knowing I didn’t have to shove breakfast down my throat and rush off to the Exhibition Centre to start work was refreshing, to say the least. Sunday mornings are all about relaxation and taking it easy, I reckon. The sun was out, Collins Street was devoid of the usual traffic and I [...]

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Fernvale Country Market & the legendary Fernie pie

30 September 2011 Bakery
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The country market is one of those places that I wish I visited more often. Yes we have our share of city farmers markets dotted around town and as good as most of them are, the ones beyond the urban wilderness have a certain simple and unstructured format about them. I find they’re even cheaper than the [...]

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Marché Bastille – Paris, France

30 May 2011 France
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Most of us know the feeling of waking up in a bed that is not our own; you open your bleary eyes, look up at the ceiling and for a brief moment have no idea where you are. Someones couch? A friends place? Or a hotel room on another continent? Case in point one morning before I jumped [...]

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