While I’m working for Tourism Victoria, I’m not writing Victorian restaurant reviews or about Victorian product more generally on this blog. This is very much self-imposed. There is too much scope for conflicts of interest. I can hardly accuse a TV show’s kitchen of sucking while having to front up
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Korean Food
Mar 04, 2013 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
Ambient intimacy
Jan 26, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
“It’s a minefield even for Asians”
I had dinner on Saturday at Poon’s Chinese Restaurant in Barkly Street, Footscray. It was the worst Cantonese meal that I’ve eaten in Melbourne. The service was gracious and friendly considering that they were packed and it was dirt cheap. The meal was a mistake but not an expensive one
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Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 87 Comments
French Fry Coated Hot Dog On a Stick: The Recipe
I shouldn’t be left unattended in the kitchen. One thing that struck me about finding the French fry coated hot dog on a stick in South Korea was that they were doing it wrong, the sort of cultural misunderstanding that happens when one culture cooks the food of an unrelated
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Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 57 Comments
French Fry Coated Bacon on a Stick
When Brillat-Savarin said that “the discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star” he perhaps hadn’t spent much of his time near the deep fryer. This dish confers on humanity nothing but moral decline. I present to you french fry coated
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Mar 09, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
Five links on ummm…Sunday
Sorry…I made a quick trip to Sydney and forgot that I was meant to be posting this on Friday. Enjoy your long weekend, Australians. We must hunt the elephants to save them – "Sustainable use" doesn’t make for great bumper stickers, but "I shoot ferals" does. Food trends: Wet Market
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Mar 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments
Kimchi jeon (김치전)
I’ve personally eaten half a kilo of kimchi this week. There have been no ill effects. Something about the idea of Korea’s national obsession being shot into space has piqued my tastebuds. Their mastery of the controlled fermentation of coleslaw is no longer earthbound. A recipe for kimchi jeon is
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Sep 28, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
Hite touts shite stout
Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Scouting about for a stout with no clout? Shout for Hite Stout. There are two things wrong with this stout. Firstly, that it’s black; and secondly, that it is not labelled as “lager” anywhere on the bottle. It is beer at its most deceptive. It’s
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Sep 26, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
Bad Korean food ideas: Meat in a waffle cone
Not a moment passes when I don’t think that the ultimate summer food experience would be to have a cone of gelati in one hand and a cone of grilled steak in the other. And possibly a third hand for an India pale ale. Despite what fast food companies will
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