Dec 15, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

How to eat an island

Roti chanai and kopi (coffee) Sitting at a breakfast of roti canai and kopi, you start to wonder if the roti could be flakier, less oily. If a few more layers of the papery pastry was possible. If only you’d stopped at the neighbouring nasi kandar vendor who will give

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Dec 14, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Menu For Hope 2007: 23K

I’ve said it before, but Last Appetite is all about the Benjamins. The Menu for Hope raffle to support the essential work of World Food Programme hit the USD$23,000 dollar mark this morning. To buy a ticket to win any of the below prizes or those from the global pool,

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Dec 13, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Menu For Hope 2007

What is Menu for Hope? It’s when food bloggers from all over the world join together, and take leave from our usual obsession with our own stomachs. Throughout the year, we tend to wank on about food, beer, wine and other such visceral pleasures, but for two weeks every December,

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Dec 12, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments

Jolly Shandy

“Brewer”: Carlsberg Before people had the option of deadening their palate while getting their booze on with a premixed wine cooler, there was shandy, half beer mixed with half lemonade. It is one of those drinks manages to ruin two otherwise perfect drinks when you make it. I’d first heard

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Dec 11, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Malaysia is sweet

I’ve left Thailand for Malaysia and am running a little behind on writing. More sweet eating to come from Penang, Cameron Highlands, Melaka, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Terengganu, Kota Bharu and more.

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Dec 07, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments

Pig’s brain tom yam and the morbidly obese dog.

Austin told me that there would be pig’s brain tom yam. An offal and coconut soup aberration buried in Bangkok’s inner suburbs within walking distance of some of the other rarer gems in Thailand’s food scene. A mere taxi ride from the Gut Feelings safehouse where I was holed up

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Dec 04, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Buddha’s littlest pirate

A young monk buys pirated DVDs, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.

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Dec 03, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 15 Comments

The road to Mae Hong Son

Night market in front of wat at Maehongson The road to Mae Hong Son in Northwest Thailand is dream trip for motorcyclists. A road of endless switchbacks, freshly paved, glides you through hidden valleys filled with stepped rice paddies, small farms, streams revealing waterfalls, hidden caves and palaces abandoned until

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