41° Experience There is so much brilliance I can recall about this meal, but I have decided not to put all into writing. Lazy blogger, no. Necessity, yes. The “elements of surprise” are crucial, according to FAQ. When it was first launched, 41° Experience (or 41 Grados) by El Bulli-famed Ferran and Albert Adria was …
Xingjiang Xinjiang Uyghur is (to my understanding) a culturally grey area of China. Situated in the North West, it was known in the old days as Chinese Turkestan, and given the region’s being bordered by Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and India as much as by China, the influences from these non-Chinese regions have been …
Not very often that I was greeted on arrival at a restaurant by a squeamishly bellowing noise of what-I-hoped-an-animal-not-human-being. A chicken to be martyred for my culinary quest perhaps? A walk through a summer garden of this multi-terrain restaurant Uzbekistan by Arkady Novikov helped demystify the origin of the noise.. ..no fat duck, no obese …
Read this if all you really know about Kazakhstan and Central Asia can be summed up by the word “Borat”. I was never keen to explore the cuisine of this region until my other bib decided to go backpacking the region. I heard, through him via Lonely Planet, that the speciality of Kazakh cuisine was …
You take a bus to Camberwell Road, to this little “boutique” hotel Pasha, and walk down this red-carpetted, dimly lit, narrow corridor. Keep walking and walking, past a Turskish bath, a steam room and sauna, a cosmetic laser surgery room – I am not kidding – a pool table and lots of photos of pretty …