I leave in the morning. Went for lunch to Rok, a Scandinavian restaurant, where the soused mackerel and aebleskiver were exemplary but the rest ranged from decent to peculiar. The latter was a curiously tough beef sirloin and we couldn’t work out whether it was deliberately so or just a poor joint. Then another look […]
East
East End for lunch yesterday, to Som Saa, a Thai restaurant that used to be a pop up under some arches and is now a proper restaurant on Commercial Street. It remains one of my favourite Thai restaurants anywhere, getting the vigour and freshness of real Thai food. Then to Whitechapel Gallery for the last […]
Two lunches
Dinings, yesterday, was disappointing. The food was as good as ever, but the staff made me genuinely uncomfortable. It used to be a quiet, elegant place where the staff were helpful but discreet and retiring – very important in that cramped space. Over the past two years they’ve changed to all-hipster staff, most of them […]
Putt
A gorgeous dinner today at The Charsi Tikka. Charsi means dope smoker and this was apt as successive waves of hash smoke swept over us and the cooks and waiters were alike clearly under the influence. THere was a group of extremely rowdy and loud children that had us in a terrible mood to begin […]
Early morning nihari
Woke up early and went to the Walled City with my sister visiting from Islamabad. We arrived at around 6.30 or so, when few were out and the streets were still piled with the rubbish from the day before. The driver dropped us off at the Sheranwala gate instead of Lohari gate as we’d asked […]
Drive
Out of curiosity I cracked open an energy drink – one of those narrow macho looking cans with Fast and Furious writing in neon colours. (Looking at the can it is, in fact, called Drive, #DRIVEM7ASPAR, whatever the latter means). Good lord. What a foul thing. I took a single sip and poured it down […]
Jungle fowl
I had my chai this morning and then took the free bus from the Weld to Petaling street for breakfast at Hon Kee Porridge. It was later than ideal, around 10 in the morning, but it was very pleasant nonetheless, to sit at a quiet table with my congee accompanied by a plate of raw […]
Super quail
Missed yesterday as we were out all day. The GF had to participate in a roundtable at the Sunway Convention Centre, so I tagged along, planning to get my waxing and threading done from one of the small 1-room beauty parlours surrounding the Sunway complex. We stopped on the way for a quick lunch of […]
Missed yesterday
I missed yesterday’s post due to not remembering till I was well on my way to sleep, and think I must have fallen asleep minutes or seconds after remembering. So two posts today! Yesterday’s first excursion was to two slightly disappointing places. One was to a well-reviewed restaurant called Table and Apron in Damansara Kim. […]
Garlic presses I have known
1. Garlic wheel. Requires brute strength and strong wrists. Doesn’t actually crush. Cloves need to be pre-chopped. Difficult to get garlic out. Difficult to clean. Plastic retains smell of stale garlic. 2. Garlic wheel. Actual wheel containing blades. Very small, doesn’t take more than a pre-chopped clove. More of a chopper than anything. Chunks of […]