Week 44 – Chicken curry and chips, from the Chinese, in Wales

Yes, you read that correctly: chicken curry (what you might expect to be Indian in origin), served with chips (British?), but from a Chinese takeaway, in Wales. This is the food Andrew craves, and what he was delighted to eat during our recent trip to Wales. This is not the kind of curry you would […]

Week 16 & 17 – Asian food from Hoo Hing

Ever since I first drove past Hoo Hing Asian supermarket on the North Circular (I say drove, probably a more accurate description would be ‘ever since I was first stuck in traffic by Hoo Hing), I have been keen to go there and indulge in my favourite hobby of filling my cupboards with unusual food. […]

Alphabet adventures with Charlotte and Joanna – an introduction

“It’s not easy being greedy”: well, that’s not entirely true. Being greedy is no hassle at all – I am without thinking about it. Greedy is me. Unless I am out in public and strangers might be watching me, I eat my dinner like a woman possessed (by the cookie monster). What’s not easy is […]