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Fly airplane, Vietnam-style
Hello Kitty and I were entertaining a visitor from out of town, who requested that we go somewhere with old school table-side service. Two places come to mind immediately, but ultimately we decided on...
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Ro ro for lunch
I was having lunch with Fergie a couple of days ago when he mentioned that he had just gone to a dinner tasting of Alexandre Polmard's beef. This is the man running a family business that has been...
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Earth Hour 2017
It's late March, and that means Earth Hour is once again upon us. Tonight is my 9th year taking part in this global event. I know the event is only 1 hour in duration and is largely symbolic, but I...
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Six mouths. three cities, one goose
The Hungry Tourist is back in town after a couple of months' absence. It's only been a few weeks since we last saw each other in Bangkok, and in the meantime he continued to eat his way across the...
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Beyond Chungking Express
We were getting together with a couple of friends we haven't seen in a while, and searched for a fine dining restaurant which had a corkage policy that could accommodate us. Amber was out of the...
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Golden Waves of the Riviera
It's only been 12 hours since the end of our wonderful dinner last night, but Hello Kitty dragged ourselves out of bed this morning and made our way to the Centurion Restaurant at the Hong Kong Jockey...
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Droning Boy: Cape D'Aguilar
After a few weeks straight of having crappy weather - or fine weather during the work week and crap weather on the weekends - I've finally gotten a day off when the sun is out and the skies are blue....
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Another private initiation
When the Hungry Tourist told me a while back that he was coming back to town, the place that I wanted to take him more than anywhere else was my favorite private dining facility. You see, like many...
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Fireflies in the Neighborhood
It's been a couple of months since I last paid a visit to Neighborhood, and a few of my friends have been posting about their meals on social media. I've been drooling over the firefly squids (蛍烏賊)...
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Californian and French TOAST
The Prince of Napa is back in town, and a few weeks ago he invited me to join a "casual BYOB dinner". When I asked him what the theme for the evening was, I was told there was no theme... BUT someone...
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Droning Boy: the Dragon's Back
Now that I've started to hike in order to fly my drone, and the weather seems to have gotten better, I decided to go for another outing this weekend. This time I set off for familiar ground, although...
View ArticleThe "sexist" Best Female Chef awards
Thrice a year, around the time of the respective announcements of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, and Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants - all of which are sponsored by...
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Droning Boy: Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir
It's Easter weekend and we have a couple of extra days off, so I took the opportunity to get a couple of extra droning sessions in. I didn't wanna go too far out today, and given that we needed to be...
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A Stellar Good Friday
I've been trying to get together with a couple of friends, and after multiple rounds of trying to schedule something that works for everyone, we finally managed to meet up on Good Friday, again. The...
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Droning Boy: Lion Rock FAIL
The weather was looking pretty good today, and Hello Kitty was out enjoying a girls' lunch, so I decided to take my drone for an outing. Lion Rock (獅子山) has long been considered a symbol of the...
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Droning Boy: Easter excursion to Lantau
With the weather forecast predicting very fine weather today, I had planned a trip to Lantau Island with Hello Kitty today so I could get more use out of my drone. Somewhere along the line Diva...
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Steak and red wines for Easter
After our hiking adventures earlier today, we felt we needed to treat ourselves to a nice dinner. Specifically, a steak dinner. So... a call was placed to book ourselves a table, and after going back...
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Mo' Unni in the 'Hood
Mo' Unni's making some big changes in her life, and we figured we were overdue for a catch up, so a reservation was made for an early dinner at Neighborhood. I was a little surprised that she had...
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Gin et Jim
A couple of days before my first visit to Frantzén's Kitchen, I somehow scared myself into thinking that an online reservation I thought I had made was not completed. This was, of course, helped along...
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One star food, WTF service
WARNING: this is a long rant piece about why the service pissed me off so much that I won't return to a restaurant with good food. If you have no interest in my rant, skip ahead to where the pictures...
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