My family’s traditional Russian Ukrainian recipes make an appearance every Orthodox Easter when I can normally be found in our Siem Reap kitchen baking kulich or paska, making cabbage rolls, rolling out dough for pelmeni and vareniki, and preparing my baboushka’s pink beetroot potato salad, while I recollect the family feasts of my childhood. This … Read more
Our new Cambodia food tour focuses on the handmade, home-cooked and hands-on. You’ll observe living culinary traditions at risk of disappearing, do Cambodian cooking classes and market tours with Siem Reap’s best chefs, get lessons in Cambodian barbecue and traditional desserts, and try your hand at making fermented rice noodles and crafting Khmer cocktails. UPDATE: … Read more
Amok trei or fish amok is a Cambodian steamed fish curry with an almost mousse-like texture when cooked properly. Travellers to Cambodia are told by tour guides and hotel and restaurant staff that fish amok is Cambodia’s national dish and a must-try specialty when visiting the Kingdom. But how do you know that what you’re … Read more
Our favourite restaurant in Venice, Antiche Carampane, has a warning sign outside so you know what kind of restaurant it is: “No pizza, no lasagne, no menù turistico“. Here’s why we love this very special Venetian restaurant, secreted down a hard-to-find lane in Venice’s San Polo neighbourhood. Hidden down a lane in the Venice sestiere … Read more