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Scottish vs. Malaysian Myths

I read in disbelief when Catherine Brown, the food write, revealed her discovery that haggis, a very unique Scottish dish, in fact, appeared first in an English cookbook 171 years before Robert Burns even mentioned it. I was still in shocked when Allan Brown in his article “History Behind Scottish Myths”, on Sunday, August 9th, [...]

August 21, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Indonesia, Scotland, UK 8 Comments

Homecoming Scotland

I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of  Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]

July 22, 2009 Scotland, UK 0 Comments

Haggis, Black Pudding, White Pudding

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

April 8, 2008 Scotland 7 Comments

Céilidh

I went to my first céilidh (pronounced kay-lee) in Aberdeen last December at The Marcliffe Hotel (which, to me personally, was a disaster, since I wore a long ball gown that sweeps the floor, very glamorous for waltz but not suitable for Scottish dance which involves lots of bounces and skips and takes so much [...]

January 31, 2008 Life & Style, Scotland 2 Comments

Burns Supper

We’re back in Aberdeen after 6-week holiday in Indonesia and Vietnam. The prospect of going back to cold, gray, wet weather wasn’t really appealing; especially when we were transiting in Amsterdam and seeing outside the window of Schiphol Airport. But surprise, surprise, last weekend wasn’t actually that bad. The sun was shining, the sky was [...]

January 22, 2008 Uncategorized 3 Comments

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