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Last week I discovered a vendor doing brisk trade in Haiphong's contribution to the spring roll collection. That if they can be called rolls! Known as nem cua be, they are more parcel than roll, held together with a strip...

we headed out of melbourne for a mini-roadtrip. it’s not my favourite thing, sitting in a car for hours at a stretch, watching the scenery whiz past, however the regional bakeries sort of make it worthwhile. it was just after 9 on day 2 when we entered the bakery on the main street of kyneton [...]

James Brown certainly wasn't describing the Turkish çay evi (tea house) when he crooned those four words, but he could have been. Even in Istanbul -- but especially in Turkey's more conservative east -- the çay evi is a cultural...

so, golly, it was just about a month ago that we were in melbourne. warm-and-sunny-in-the wintertime melbourne, whoulda thunk it. we did such typical school holiday stuff as go the the circus (the amazing circus oz, with no horses or elephants, but wonderful and strong girl-acrobats, and funny and hot — h.o.t. — boy-acrobats, and [...]

This is the cover of the June issue of Ninsugu, a popular Japanese pregnancy magazine. The cluttered layout is typical...

During my trip back home earlier this summer (read Part One here) my belly received plenty of attention, and everyone...

Sichuanese rice meal-coated steamed pork belly with pumpkin If all goes according to plan, Dave and I will be back in Chengdu in a little over a month. Until then, we have mizheng rou. "Rice-steamed meat" is the admittedly not...

Sichuanese rice meal-coated steamed pork belly with pumpkin If all goes according to plan, Dave and I will be back in Chengdu in a little over a month. Until then, we have mizheng rou. "Rice-steamed meat" is the admittedly not...

Before I came to Vietnam, duck seemed so old-fashioned, so Peking, so Donald, so Daffy, so cartoon-character. So zoo animal, even. At Christmas in Australia, the duck was envied by other birds, less often getting the chop. I wonder if...

Once in a while, a rare while nowadays, I’m called upon to help diagnose a Windows XP PC malware and slow performance problem. Maybe it’s rare because I’ve succeeded educating my friends and family on the Defence Against the Black Arts or it may more likely be that these owners of machines have grown up from Primary school kids to being more adult Secondary school individuals with some amount of discernment.

Usually, the Windows XP PC isn’t the main production / family PC any longer – it’s so cheap now to resolve the issue by going to the mall, buy a new Netbook, not so Netbook or an inexpensive Notebook / Laptop with glitzy screen, bigger hard disk, dual core processor. However, owners of old machines don’t like old machines to go to waste so if they can rope in a nerd to fix up their PC, they will – feast of a Chinese dinner at the Hakka Restaurant with some 2002 Loxton Merlot thrown in.

Moving forward in time, disinfection tools vary – the techniques remain similar, but what is free and available are updated. Enumerating the stages in reverse….