Category: Places

  • Short the distance: Hainan, Part One

    There is Hainanese Chicken Rice on Hainan Island [海南岛]. Only it’s mostly crappy and the recipe’s most likely garnered from what Singaporean and Malaysian tourists tell the Hainan Islanders. The same goes for Hainanese coffee, Hainanese kaya and Hainanese mutton soup. (The original Hainanese Chicken Rice is actually a steamed/boiled chicken dish from the city…

  • The goose is cooked

    iTunes is playing: The Thrill Is Gone – Nina Simone – Tomato Collection I can’t taste anything. I have a rather bad flu. No M.C. to get off work though. Life’s like that when you run your own bidness. It was a particularly harrowing work day, but only so after I had a think about…