Roast raw rice and grated coconut in a dry pan till golden brown, taking care not to burn. Let it cool and grind down into a coarse powder…
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Vegetables and fruits defy all 150m2 of the backyard and nudge across the neighbourly fence. Life can not be contained…
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We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…
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Karachi was considered the ‘Paris of the East’, with its roaring nightclub scene sporting live bands, great food and plenty of booze…
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It was about half an hour in, and most of the attendees are comfortably settled into the conversation. It is the right time to hurl a brick through a stained glass window during a funeral. “I was thinking of boiling a tongue today for dinner...”
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SPECIAL PREVIEW
TCK TOWN Recipe Book
A luscious, mouth-watering Lebanese dessert and one of Lebanon’s most traditional sweets.
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I sit there. Sweaty. Hungry. Flushed. Embarrassed, but humoured. This was the first time I had ever used chopsticks, been to a Vietnamese restaurant, or laid eyes on tea ornaments (flasks)...
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Spare me the cake and candles and let me celebrate how I like it best...
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Holy shit. It’s still alive! Okay. Oh my god. Okay. OH MY GOD...
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I liked his big, round glasses and how he drew Mount Fuji for me on a spare piece of paper because I was disappointed that it was again obscured from our view ("now you can say you've seen it"). I became quickly smitten...
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My first time with said noodle was in college (granted, I was kind of a late bloomer). When I asked my friends about their first experiences, some confessed that they’d gone home to it after a first date or left parties early for it. Others boasted they’d had three sessions in one night...
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The finger bowls are filled with water and shy curling lemon zest. We watch the figs hold their breath in honey, huddled together for us to share...
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Ask any subcontinental family to vouch for the importance of “chai time” and you'll hear about a highly essential evening dose of caffeine and chatter which blossoms in most households during the evenings, a few hours before dinner...
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To prepare the zucchini, cut off the stalks. Carefully hollow out the zucchini from the stalk end by pushing and rotating the manqara* into the flesh until you have a generous cavity around 0.5 cm thick...
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They all swoon over the bearded bakers, and on numerous occasions one or two customers have told me that they’d been following the gentlemen on their journey around Melbourne’s suburbs...
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Best served with: puri, roti or paratha, rice, or bread...
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My pilgrimage to locate the best HSP joint in Victoria continues. There will be more hits, and some misses, but that is the price my bowels will pay for this greater good that will serve the human race...
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My rendition of one served in Seattle...
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I had been taught in school that heaven contained streams of milk and honey, however, that afternoon as I blasphemed, I knew God would forgive this enlightened experience when his golden trumpets sounded on my day of reckoning...
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