Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years. The Bloggies is one [...]

UN of food: China (plus win books!)

We all think we know what Chinese food is but the truth is that it’s incredibly diverse. The most common style of Chinese cuisine in the West is Cantonese but China is an enormous country and even within the majority Han population, there is vast regional variation in the cuisine. When you take into account [...]

Best of the web: Travel inspiration

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]

Photo Friday: Fairytale Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2006 The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen Harbour is one of Denmark’s most famous landmarks. As a result she usually attracts a crowd of adoring onlookers, not unlike the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. There’s none of this business of admiring her from afar either – one by one or [...]

Photo Friday: Chinese New Year in London

London, UK; February 2005 London has a large Chinese community and every year for Chinese New Year there’s a huge parade from Trafalgar Square, up Charing Cross Road and into Chinatown. Lion dancers prance the streets of Chinatown, devouring lettuces that hang out of shop windows. (The lettuces are not the point; they contain money [...]

Best of web: Kraków, airlines, box hotels, shoes, Sea World, Amsterdam, female-only beaches

* On my foodie site The Gooseberry Fool, I share my dining experiences in Kraków, Poland. * Kim at Wild About Writing + Travel shares her top 10 things to do in Havana, Cuba. * On Sheila Scarborough’s new and improved family travel site, now at its new home at FamilyTravelLogue, she reminds us of [...]

Recipe Road Test: ‘Egg flower’ drop soup

Vegetarian soup from Chinese Food Made Easy by BBC TV chef Ching-He Huang. Some dear friends of mine recently gave me a copy of Chinese Food Made Easy, which ties in with the BBC show presented by Ching-He Huang. It’s full of beautiful pictures and recipes that sound delicious – from mussels in black bean [...]

My month as Phileas Fogg

I didn’t need 80 days to travel around the world but the last month still feels pretty epic. Since leaving London in early March, I have been to eight countries on four continents. First stop was Australia, where I spent a couple of weeks visiting friends and family in and around Sydney and Brisbane. I [...]

Around the world in 80 tastes

With my Phileas Fogg cap on, I have hit the road for a month. It’s a mammoth world trip, combining Australia, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. Nicaragua was obviously a detour but it’s for work so a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! All this has left me with plenty to [...]

Festive Chinese noodles

I enjoy perusing recipe books and cooking magazines and surfing the plethora of foodie material on the web. But there is one thing that is always guaranteed to bring back my cooking inspiration and that is the ingredients themselves. Determined to celebrate Chinese New Year in style but unsure how, I decided to head down [...]

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