It is amazing what 24 house can do, but that is exactly how long it took for us to go from NEVER to eating at Chef Marks Style Italian and Japanese restaurant. Why though the initial issue? Well our first thoughts where that Japanese and Italian foods were not greta bedfellows. This though was overcame…
A&W might be an American fast-food brand, but in Indonesia, it’s become a cultural staple that has stood the test of time. While Western fast food chains have been popping up across the globe, A&W has carved out a special place in Indonesia’s food scene. Known for its iconic root beer floats (when available) and…
Retuning for my yearly jaunt to Palawan and El Nido would once gain demonstrate how things change here, with some old favoutits gone and some nice new entrants, one if which being Big Mamas! Slightly sadder though were the closures chief among them being the the Ukrainian restaurant Odessa Mama, which is now boarded up…
Being clover of southeast Asian cuisine I was super excited to try the food in North Sumatra. Sadly not only was the trip itself rather disappointing, but the food was frankly awful. This has actually frankly got me thinking about food in Indonesia in general, which I think might actually be more the problem here,…
Is it worth visiting Samosir Island in Indonesia? Well I could be flippant and simply say no, but then this would be a very short article. And in fact the real answer is a bot more nuanced. I personally found myself here as a part of a private trip – that I had not prepared…
Whilst in Japan I discovered that Burger King had mad the biggest ever fast food burger and that you could get it in Tokyo. Obviously this was a red rag to a bull. And while I had not come to Japan for burgers per se, after having the Wagyu Burger at KFC I also felt…
