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Apr 28, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 9 Comments

The most useless kitchen item that I own

Ed from over at Tomatom has started an interesting thread on the least useful kitchen items that one owns. I tend to veer away from any single-use item – I wrote about this in Cambodia as a rare victory over acquisitiveness. Buying kitchen gear does not make you a better

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Apr 13, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Travel Writing 101: Date the embassy “chick”

Amazon.com Widgets Welcome to hell, Lonely Planet. “They didn’t pay me enough to go (to) Columbia (sic),” “I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating – an intern in the Colombian Consulate. “They don’t pay enough for what they expect the

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Apr 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

F-Shed at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

At 8:30am this morning, in the moment before the sun rose above the cloud cover

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Mar 29, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 9 Comments

The outing of Camy Shanghai Dumpling House’s secret

When salmonella went feral a few years ago at a favorite Turkish restaurant, hospitalising a wardful of unlucky diners, I felt the urge to eat there out of solidarity with the owners but sadly, the health inspectors had put paid to my plans. The joy of returning to a previous

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Mar 17, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Melbourne street life: Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth St

7:00am in front of the GPO, Melbourne, Australia

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Mar 03, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

I can’t believe it’s not Chợ Bến Thành ™

There is nothing like a high degree of architectural verisimilitude to brighten up my day, be it a Big Banana, Giant Merino or in this case, a fake Ben Thanh Market building in the middle of Melbourne. This model of Saigon’s Ben Thanh Market is so accurate that the clocks

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Feb 27, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 16 Comments

Sausage Fancier

Once you’ve seen how sausages are made, you’ll want to eat nothing but sausages. This was my first impression of home sausage making; my second was that making sausages is possibly my true calling and that my university loan debts could have been better spent on a meat mincer and

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Feb 25, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

The possibility of a guerrilla garden

In the modern city, horticulture is a transgressive sport. Modern urban developments tend to preclude growing fruit and vegetables as a possibility by offering only dark, windy balconies or paving over backyards, only conceding the mere edges to decorative, inedible shrubbery. The walls of suburban McMansions creep closer to the

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