Our 5 ways to support your local Chinatown this holiday season include everything from doing your Christmas gift shopping and buying Christmas meal ingredients in Chinatown to holding your end-of-year celebrations and even enjoying festive meals in Chinatown. Or you could just show your local Chinatown some love. If you’re missing Asia and dreaming of ...
Meet the coolest Siem Reap neighbourhood, Wat Bo Village on the east bank of Siem Reap River. Home to stylish boutique hotels, superb restaurants, convivial cafés and bars, food trucks, street food, and fab shopping, Wat Bo Village is also the new address of Miss Wong, Siem Reap’s best cocktail bar. Reason enough to make ...
The new David Thompson restaurant Aksorn is open in Bangkok’s hip historic Charoenkrung neighbourhood. I caught up with the Thailand-based Australian-born Thai chef yesterday to find out what it’s like to open a restaurant in Bangkok during a global pandemic, what he’s cooking, and how he’s enjoying clearing tables. Thailand-based Australian chef David Thompson opened ...
Our Guildford heritage walk takes you on a self-guided stroll around the historic Swan Valley town. Just 25 minutes from the centre of Perth, the Western Australian capital, Guildford warrants a stop before you start the Swan Valley Food and Wine Trail and the best way to explore the charming town is on foot. Our ...
Asian wet markets are essentially where people across the region shop for their food – everything from fresh seafood to smoked fish, from fruit and vegetables to herbs, spices and condiments. Not every wet market in Asia sells wildlife, so why is there a movement to shut them down? As Wuhan in China recently emerged ...
Here are some ideas as to how to help save your favourite restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic from ordering home delivery and takeaway meals to buying gift vouchers, purchasing restaurant cookbooks, and making donations to support chef-led initiatives to feed the hungry and less fortunate. For food-lovers privileged to be able to afford the luxury ...
Siem Reap dishes you must try in Cambodia's culinary capital include everything from Cambodia’s quintessential noodle dish nom banh chok at Pachok, a traditional kuy teav soup at Chep Por's, a beautiful Cambodian fish ceviche at Lum Orng farm to table restaurant, and a sublime Kampot scallop seaweed salad at Mie Cafe. Siem Reap is ...
Nom banh chok is a quintessential Cambodian breakfast noodle dish beloved by locals that is essentially ‘Cambodia in a bowl’. It’s also the name of the lightly fermented rice noodles, made fresh daily by artisanal noodlemakers and sold at local markets, that are the central component of the dish. Nom banh chok is Cambodia’s national ...
Where to eat in Sapa, from the best Sapa restaurants, local eateries and noodle shops to the tastiest Sapa street food and market eats, from Vietnamese cuisine to the food of the ethnic minorities such as the Hmong and Red Dao peoples, from French to Italian, this is our guide to where to eat in ...
Calabrian food is one of Italy’s most distinctive cuisines, having endured centuries of invasions and colonisers and immigrants that have included Greeks, Romans, French, Arabs, and Spaniards, all of whom have had an influence on the spicy Southern Italian cuisine. Every region of Italy has its own signature dishes and local ingredients that give something ...
Chef Sujira Pongmorn of Saawaan Restaurant Bangkok speaks to us about her early food memories and inspirations, her first restaurant experiences and biggest influences, how she conceived her first restaurant Saawaan, and Bangkok's dining scene. Meet one of Thailand's most exciting chefs. There was no smoke and flames, no clank and crash of metal as ...
Lum Orng farm to table restaurant has quickly become one of Siem Reap’s best restaurants, serving deliciously imaginative Cambodian food based on just-picked produce and seasonal ingredients. It is part of a flourishing green movement across the region, of which Siem Reap is leading the way. Siem Reap restaurants have been groundbreaking when it comes ...