Living in Brussels, I’m often asked if I miss Singapore. My answer: Not really. I only miss my family and friends, as well as the food. Regarding the latter, I miss the spiciness and wide variety of southeast asian dishes such as rojak, chicken curry, nasi lemak, congee, po piah and char siew rice. All of which I used…
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“Maïs chaud, chaud maïs” (literally, “corn hot, hot corn”) Ah, the familiar cry of yet another African man selling roasted corn. Always in winter, always right outside the Quick fast food restaurant that is above the Belleville metro station. Sometimes, there are up to three or four of them at that busy corner where rue…
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April 2010: I was at Banyan Tree Phuket with two photographers – Jason Lang and Christopher Wise – for a photo shoot. We had about a hundred images to make during the one week when we were at the resort. This included food shots of the signature dishes of the restaurants and these were handled mostly by Jason,…
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I had known Debbie since my Banyan Tree days when she contacted the PR department for some information for a story. That was back in 2007, I think. We never met until earlier this year when AB and I were in Antwerp for a weekend. Fortunately she was in town, instead of trotting around the…
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Woke at noon today with a massive hangover after too many glasses of Rioja red wine and too little jambon last night at Etxebarri Tapas de Autor @ 14 rue Francart. After a hot shower and a few mouthfuls of porridge, I succumbed to my splitting + spinning headache and went back to bed, only to wake…
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Someone should suggest to tell the folks at the Barbican Centre to bring on a third-party to manage their kitchen at the Barbican Food Hall. We had brunch last month before heading to the Marcel Duchamp exhibition. The interiors of the Barbican Food Hall is gorgeous, just like the building that houses it. Very contemporary chic:…
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Earlier this month, AB and I went to the Barbican Arts Centre for “The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns” exhibition. It was the second time that I had stepped foot into the Barbican Estate housing complex, within which the arts centre is located.The first time I was there, AB and…
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We walked around Brussels on Saturday and it is always surprising to see that the street food culture that is so prevalent in Asia doesn’t seem to exist here (nor in Paris). In Brussels, the typical ‘snack’ foods would be greasy, mediocre kebabs and frites (french fries). While there are a few friteries (fries stands)…
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I was in Taipei for the first time in January and was looking forward to eating all kinds of Chinese street food after hearing so much about the city’s famous night markets from family, friends and on TV. After three days in Taipei, I only visited one night market, which was rather small and low-profile…
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Angelina Hue 