Posts Tagged ‘Food’

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, [...]

Food February 28, 2008 8:01 am 4 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 [...]

Life & Style, Scotland January 31, 2008 10:06 pm 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 [...]

Food January 22, 2008 4:42 pm 3 Comments

I Love Scotland

Note: I must say that this story is written because I feel guilty that I have written many things about Scotland which seem more like complains, especially about the weather. Weather is not that bad, if we know how to handle it (which puts me in the category of ‘virgin’ since I have no clue. [...]

Being Expat, Life & Style, Scotland, Travel, UK November 12, 2007 9:41 am 3 Comments

Is Our Ministry of Tourism Sleeping?

I never thought I was a proud Indonesian. There are so many things our nation has done that made me embarrass enough to admit that I’m from the largest archipelago state. It struck me when I was living in Australia, especially during East Timor’s independence issue. By that time we were still recovering from economy [...]

Arts & Entertainment, Indonesia, Life & Style September 27, 2007 3:32 pm 3 Comments

Things that We Thought Are Normal….

Mr. mck finds me crazy. Well, it’s not the first time, but this is the first time I realize that what we usually have in Indonesia are considered crazy. Here they are: Pisang goreng (banana fritter). Pisang goreng with chocolate sauce, condensed milk, and grated cheese. Or pisang goreng with melted brown sugar and icing [...]

Being Expat, Food August 31, 2007 4:28 pm 4 Comments

My Survival Kits

A month before quitting from L’Oreal Group, the news that I was moving to Scotland was spread and everybody always gave me the same questions: 1) where is Scotland, 2) it’s far and cold, how do you survive? and 3) won’t you miss Indonesian food? For number one, I’ve already tried to explain it in [...]

Being Expat July 22, 2007 4:35 pm 0 Comments
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