I deserved it

Decided to go to a ‘healthy fast food’ place nearby for lunch instead of picking up something from the lunch stalls on the street. It was, unsurprisingly, very poor. I had the much-praised beef burger which has a wholewheat bun with minimal wholewheat content – thank heavens – and a baked patty (??? to the […]

Klang exploration

We went to Klang this morning. A small impressively-named town that is the seat of the Selangor Sultan and now, basically, a suburb of KL. It was a short and pleasant visit amidst quiet streets sleepy because it was a holiday and no one spends their holiday in Klang. At one point a car stopped […]

Escape! continued

A profound lack of motivation continues, largely around work but also in the ‘what’s the use of it all?’ sort of way. Yesterday the GF was working from home and we decided to go out for lunch. I had found an assam laksa place towards Ampang which was supposed to be good, so we walked […]

Sheep rump fat

That was the best meal in Islamabd: a trip to a Shinwari restaurant on the Kashmir highway with a Pathan friend who selected the meat himself, chatted up the cooks, and arranged for a delicious platter of namkeen mutton tikkas, a pound of sheep rump fat and some mutton karhai. Westerners – and many Pakistanis […]

Shit restaurants of KL

Just back from lunch and thinking dreamily of a website concept: Shit Restaurants of KL. This would focus particularly on restaurants which have superb reviews – in the first case because they have clearly paid off a reviewer, and in the second because they are instagrammable but the food and experience isn’t up to the […]

Long awaited day

The ICC Champion’s Trophy final was a long awaited delight yesterday. I used to follow cricket avidly, was even a cricket correspondent for a newspaper for a time. That experience during a historic India-Pakistan series which took much that I found interesting out of the game and replaced it with hype, along with the changes […]

Temple stay

The Gentleman Friend enjoyed the temple stay more than I did, but largely because I have little affinity to anything meditative or spiritual. We had a small room, unfurnished, with a blanket on the floor to sleep on, and had surprisingly comfortable nights. As seems to be universal in South Korea the shower was spectacularly […]

Hanok day

A purposely quiet day in Jeonju, starting late with a stroll down to the Nambu market to have rice soup with bean sprouts for breakfast. Mistakenly had a beef tripe soup instead but this turned out to be for the best as it was quite mild and wholesome feeling. Then strolling about the centre of […]

In Lahore

I had my first bit of jewellery made today, so now I can feel like a proper Pakistani adult woman I daresay. I’m not entirely happy with it, and suspect I’ll have it remade at some time. It is stitched together of scraps. The centrepiece is a gold bead that my father found on our […]