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Busaba Eathai: Pandan chicken and sticky rice
I was at a conference. My colleague had gone back to her hotel, we re both waiting for other colleagues for dinner. I love wandering around London, I have a terrible sense of direction and I get lost all the time. (even with google map on my phone). Anyway I passed a Thai restaurant and […]
Chaophraya, Birmingham: Tom Yum, Massaman curry etc
When Sarah invited me to Chaophraya near the Bullring in Birmingham, I wasn’t too excited because I thought it was a buffet. But when I got there it soon became apparent that we were going A la Carte. I love sea food tom yum soup so I went for it while Sarah had the satay. […]
Steak at Hippopotamus, Strasbourg
It was lunch time and we did not have much time before meeting someone at Les Halles, the shopping centre in Strasbourg. It was wet and there was a chill in the air. The first restaurant, a Vietnamese restaurant we went to, we couldnt get in. So we settled for the Hippopotamus having had been […]
Le Dix, Strasbourg
I had the opportunity to go to Strasbourg for a short visit and when I arrived, it was pouring with rain so my friends, Phillipe and Maria Luisa and I just went next door to Le Dix, for dinner. I was staying at the Ibis Gare Central. I had the choucroute trois poissons which was […]
London Chinatown Wong Kei: noodles and roast pork
Wong Kei on Wardour Street is not the place to go for your fine food experience. It had a reputation of having rude waiters who gives you peremptory orders to go upstairs in the old days. But I ve always found service to be effective and fast and one of the few places where I […]
Pot Pie at Le Pain Quotidien, St Pancras
I went up to London for a meeting – I was hungry by the end of the afternoon because I did not get to have lunch, all the pubs we checked near Grays Inn Road proved inaccesible. So we ended up at St Pancras because a colleaque fancied the ambiance there. ‘Let’s pretend we ‘re […]
Bella Italia: Coventry
I know Bella Italia is a chain restaurant so their food should be the same everywhere but I did so enjoy the meal I had with friends, I will write this. I went with wheelchair user friends and the accessibility was appreciated. I must say that we went late afternoon so it was a quiet […]
Yaki sushi noodle bar: Hainanese Chicken Rice
To be honest, I ‘ve heard for some time that a sushi restaurant is coming to Coventry. I was waiting for it to happen. Previously I had to go to Birmingham for my Japanese food fix. And then, passing at Pool Meadow by chance, I realised that it WAS opened. However looking at the menu, […]
Han Dynasty: shui zhu yu, boiled fish fillets in hot chilli oil
Sometimes I think I cannot keep up with change over in restaurants. I wrote about the China Express sometime back only to return to find that its been replaced by the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty chain of restaurants started in Coventry and now is back with its specialty of hotpots and Chinese BBQ. My […]
Lamb curry with Paratha at the Indian Village, Coventry
I love parathas (roti paratha/canai) from home in Malaysia, we have it for breakfast with a dhall or fish curry. I was thrilled to see this small new eatery opposite the Pool Meadow bus station with a board advertising paratha wraps as snacks among others such as samosas and pakoras, the Indian Village. I was […]
The Eclectic Gourmand 