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Xin Heng Feng Guo Tiao Tang (Singapore): Scratching a Noodle Itch
My mother and I sometimes have to do a little sneaking around when we go to our neighborhood wet market / hawker center in Singapore. You see, if we’re spotted sitting near or even just passing by a...
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Feng Kee Hainanese Curry Rice (Singapore): A-List Rice
One of the great joys of Singaporean cuisine for me is Hainanese curry rice. I had my first taste of this as a teenager, at a small stall in Singapore where you pointed at troughs of items in a glass...
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Sum Kee Food (Singapore): Simple Does It
One of my Singapore cravings is a simple dish: Fried braised tofu with a big pile of minced pork on top. You can find this in some hawker stalls — but you’ll likely find the better versions at zi char...
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Cheok Kee Duck Rice (Singapore): Seaside Surprise
My mother and I often find ourselves jumping into the car and heading for the beach in Singapore. We’re not surf-bound or bikini-clad though — what we are is hungry. Bordering the sand is a lovely...
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St. Giles’ Cafe (Oxford, England): A Literary Lunch
Somewhere along my very first English roadtrip, as my finger trails our route on the map, a massive excitement starts to set in. I’ve realized two things: 1. We have to stop somewhere for lunch. 2. At...
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The Square & Compass (Worth Matravers, England): A Splendid Little Spot
A lazy drive along the Dorset Coast in southern England is just packed with delights. There’s the English Channel of course, that endless expanse of intense powder blue that you can’t quite take your...
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Ting Thai Caravan (Edinburgh, Scotland): Southeast Asian Street Eats
I’m often intensely skeptical of Thai food made in a western city with no sizable Southeast Asian population. It’s a cuisine that’s incredibly hard to pull off well — the numerous ingredients that go...
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The Boat House (South Queensferry, Scotland): Down By The Firth
For the last year, this question has been the bane of D.B.’s life: When are we going to see the bridge? I had become slightly obsessed with Scotland‘s Forth Bridge, an almost 8,300-foot, 1890...
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Pasta & Co. (Alghero, Italy): Sampling the Sea
One of my first nights in Sardinia and my Italian school classmate Caroline and I are on the prowl in the twilight of Alghero. After a tough morning of language lessons and a long afternoon in the sun,...
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Sardinian Seadas: A Sweet Souvenir
Cooking wasn’t much on my mind when I first arrived in Sardinia five weeks ago. Learning Italian, yes. Writing, yes. Expunging the recent stresses of New York and beyond, yes. That’s what I’d come to...
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