“Filipino cuisine could easily be the original fusion cuisine. After all, more than 400 years of Chinese, Hispanic, American and various other influences have blended together in perfect harmony for a very individual, very unique cuisine that is simply sarap (delicious).” – Datin Hjh Zainah Bujang, General Manager of the Sheraton Utama Hotel. Buenos Aires… Read More Original Fusion?
“We shall reign with righteousness, for the benefits and happiness of the Siamese people.” – Oath of Accession for the Thai king Buenos Aires – Look, he wasn’t feeling well, wasn’t even able to deliver his annual birthday address to the nation the night before his birthday festivities, so we didn’t count on him to… Read More Long Live the King!
“When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, ‘Get the chefs! Get the chefs!” – Calvin Trillin, writer Buenos Aires – I don’t know if it’s the economy, or just… Read More Vetting the Viets
It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain, author Buenos Aires – No question, spring has sprung in these parts. And what better place to stop off for lunch on a beautiful spring day in… Read More Spring in Spring
“Finally, when it had been erased from the map of the penninsular after some many centuries, the name ‘Langkasuka’ again appeared in our history when it was mooted by our founding fathers as a possible name for independent Malaya.” – Sabri Zain, The Lost Kingdom of Langasuka Buenos Aires – There was no reason in… Read More Langkasuka
“Bring me olives and morsels and I’ll be happy.” – Mariah Carey, singer New York City – The other day, a friend of mine here said, “You really are verbose. I pull up your blog in the morning to look at it and there are a dozen photographs and four or five paragraphs. That’s just… Read More Trio of Tidbits
“…it is the instabilities of cuisines, a phenomenon that makes the very concept of cuisine problematic that interests me the most. In a reality of constant flows, nothing stable that can be labeled a “cuisine” takes form any longer. Fusion is not a cuisine and is not referred to as such by the people who… Read More Asian Q-sine
“THRONGS OF MONGOLS in resplendent robes of blue, red, and maroon swarm Ulaan Baatar’s Central Stadium. Archers snap bows, bands blow brass music, and the air is saturated with the pungent odor of mutton, the national dish (the older and tougher, the better). Yet all eyes are focused on the field, where scores of burly… Read More Three Manly Games