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Posts Tagged ‘Food’

Not My Lucky Day

On one Sunday mr.mck and I decided to go for a brunch, and since the day before we had a quite successful experience with Boucla Cafe using the book “The Food Lovers’ Guide To Perth” as our inspiration, we decided to check another spot listed in the book, and we decided this time to do [...]

January 26, 2010 Australia 7 Comments

Hello From Down Under (3) – G'day!

Last Friday was the day of that marked our 2-week settlement in Perth. But we are still in the adjustment phase, where we compare everything here with what we used to have back home. From what I’ve learned in my settlement course 2 years a go when I moved to Scotland, normally the first phase [...]

December 16, 2009 Australia, Being Expat, Life & Style 2 Comments

Hello From Down Under (2) – The First Shocking Moments

Shocked after landed in Perth under its glorious sunshine at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, I quickly reminded myself that we are no longer in Aberdeen, where it gets dark before 4 PM, where it is cold, windy, and wet all day. We were discussing the best option to get into our temporary apartment (Emirates [...]

December 9, 2009 Australia, Being Expat, Life & Style 19 Comments

Bart and 'Sweet Home Obama' Go International

Bartele Santema is in his element. I can imagine him sitting down in a dressing room, powdered-face, maybe a little bit of lip gloss and mascara to enhance his features, a stack of stroopwafels on the table, a glass of beer in one hand, practicing his lines, trying to remember all of his six bars [...]

November 3, 2008 Indonesia, Life & Style 6 Comments

Cullen Skink

I haven’t written about Scottish food for a quite long time. Not because I am sulking when some blogger alluded me as blog traffic seeker by posting unworthy thread like food, but because I haven’t tried something new for a long time. But since the weather is wild outside, and it’s the first time we [...]

October 4, 2008 Scotland, UK 5 Comments

Cranachan Is…

… Another Scottish dessert. Traditionally served during harvest time in summer but now can be found everywhere, it is made from a mixture of whipped cream (lots of it), whiskey, honey and fresh raspberries topped with toasted oatmeal. The dessert is very light, not too sweet, beautiful to serve, easy to make, and a mixture [...]

May 17, 2008 Scotland, UK 6 Comments

Domestic God(dess)

Cooking is something – I can say this with confidence – that many Indonesians don’t master. Generally we are spoiled rotten by our family who can afford maids (or sometimes maid and cook), and by the widely available good and cheap food on every corner in Indonesia. Because of this, some people never visit their [...]

May 14, 2008 Life & Style 19 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

The Fake Trade

The Fake Trade, a documentary by Channel 4, written and directed by Nick Hornby (yes, the author of Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and High Fidelity), was aired on Monday night, 3 March 2008. It took us to see the inside of the counterfeit industry. The documentary opened with BASCAP arranging the biggest anti-counterfeit conference, [...]

March 5, 2008 Arts & Entertainment, Life & Style 10 Comments

Animal Cruelty on Lobster

We went to The Prime Cuts last night with another couple, and the restaurant specialties are steak and lobster. Nearby the maître d’ stand there was a big tank parading huge, healthy lobsters (thank God they did not show live cows too). I asked one of the staffs when we were collecting our coats back, [...]

February 28, 2008 Uncategorized 4 Comments