Happy Hour Snacks at Tazmania Ballroom

The other day I had drinks with a friend after work and she suggested this place because of the happy hour special that goes every day til 8. Everything is 2-for-1 and there is an unlimited buffet of creative little finger food that comes complementary as well. When she first mentioned this I was a…

A Belgian Brewery Named FRITES

There’s a place hidden deep within Hong Kong’s financial district which reminds me a little bit of home (by that I mean Boston, this time). It’s a cross between an Irish bar and a Belgian Brewhouse called Frites. Huge projector playing sports (by that I mean The Olympics, this time), 70 Belgian beers on the…

Thai Street Food

Street food is one thing. Thai street food is another. It was, in fact, a book about Thai street food that perked up my interest in visiting Thailand in the first place, a wonderful heavy, huge, hard-cover book with beautiful photos, aptly named “Thai Street Food” by David Thompson. I received the book as a…

A Nice Lunch at Pure Bar + Restaurant

Lunch time in Central. Soup, salad, sandwich. Which of the s’s I choose depends mostly on my mood, the weather and how many emails are waiting for me back at the office. Recently I’ve decided to stop going to Pret a Manger and 360 (food court in my building) for lunch and to, instead, try…

Turmeric Curry Shrimp on Patong Beach

A last night together with some old friends in Thailand. We needed to find something GOOD for dinner, and we did. Alongside the water, on Thawi Wong Road, can’t remember the name but it was 2 restaurants north of a place called Bikini Bar. We had some delicious farewell mai thais and banana daiquiris there…

Thai Desserts: An Array of Sticky Sweet Treats

Rice. Banana. Coconut. Egg. Sugar. Five simple ingredients which are combined and prepared in what seems like infinite ways in Thai cuisine to form an array of mouthwateringly delicious and texturally interesting sweets. Sickly sweet, sticky and creamy are descriptors of most Thai desserts. Subtlety is not. Delicious is. Street vendors carry a shockingly vast…

MBK Food Center Bites in Bangkok

The MBK Shopping Center in downtown Bangkok is definitely a must-see and, honestly, one of the only things I liked about what I saw of this city in the 3 days I spent there. A 6 story shopping mall where every price is negotiable, every brand name product is fake but truly very well done,…

Fresh seafood, etc at 99 Restaurant in Patong Beach

As soon as we got to Phuket, we couldn’t seem to shake the craving for fresh seafood. It’s kind of just what you get there. After searching for no more than 5 minutes, a bit off the beaten path but still, honestly, within the tourist bubble of Patong Beach, we found a street lined with…