At 8:30am this morning, in the moment before the sun rose above the cloud cover
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Australia
Apr 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
F-Shed at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
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
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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Feb 10, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
“The only reason to move to Sydney would be to kick Bill Granger in his white-panted balls”
Which was how my friend J summarized my decision to move back to Melbourne. I personally have nothing against Bill Granger and he has nothing at all to do with my decision to not move anywhere near him. The other reason to move to Sydney seems that in my absence,
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