Saw a post on Facebook of a video recipe for puff pastry chicken pie and it reminded me of Hainanese chicken pie, a dish unique to Penang. It’s a dish invented by Hainanese cooks for their British masters in colonial Malaysia. Most versions are in a brown sauce – a mixture of soya sauce and Worchestershire […]
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‘Full Bam’ breakfast at Bambalan
I had a Wriggle voucher for a ‘Full Bam’ breakfast – Bambalan’s North African influenced Full English. Grilled merguez sausage, streaky bacon, baked eggs, slow cooked tomato, flat mushroom, potato & chickpea hash brown, spiced beans, sourdough. Two eggs, two strips of bacon, two sausages! Their version of a merguez sausage is made from pork. […]
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A whole platter to myself – how ‘shellfish’ of me!
On the first day of Chinese New Year, I did not want to pay through the nose for a Chinese New Year banquet with cheap ingredients with ‘auspicious’ names. So I headed to Loch Fyne after spotting a 40% off voucher (!!!) and having no takers, had the whole shellfish platter all to myself. I know, […]
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Miller & Carter Steakhouse
Miller & Carter recently opened a branch in Bristol’s Cribbs Causeway. Mind you, Cribbs Causeway refers to the area. The restaurant actually shares a lot with Travelodge. The first time I tried to get there, I spent an age wandering around The Mall, Cribbs Causeway trying to locate it cos a road name wasn’t given.
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Full English at Mud Dock Cafe
Mud Dock Cafe is the cafe owned by Mud Dock Cycleworks (where I bought my Brompton). They have an offer on Wriggle for a Full English for only £ 4.95. That’s cheaper than a pint next door at Severnshed. Granary toast, scrambled eggs, back bacon, free-range pork sausage, grilled tomato, button mushrooms and their very […]
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Freak hot chocolate at The Beehive Coffee House
Freakshakes are causing a frenzy all over BuzzFeed, Instagram thanks to their Insta-worthiness and appealing to the general publics sweet tooth and appetite for epic food challenges. The Beehive Coffee House has been absolutely buzzing with bees-iness thanks to the free publicity from Facebook and Instagram. You only have to take a glance of their Facebook page […]
Itsu Bristol opening and half-priced sushi
Itsu are one of those pseudo-Asian chain outlets aimed at wealthy health-conscious City workers i.e. hangry overpriced food. I’ve had it a few times before from the Kings Cross outlet. They also make instant cup noodles sold at supermarkets. The glass vermicelli one I tried was pretty okay . I happened to pass by in the evening of the […]
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Lobster Thursdays at Brown’s Restaurant
Brown’s is a chain of restaurants round the UK located in fancy heritage buildings. Thursdays are Lobster Thursdays during which they serve fresh lobster at very reasonable prices. Apparently Cambridge animal rights activists protested against the restaurant for cooking lobsters live back in 2014. As long as the lobsters are killed humanely (which the restaurant said […]
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The Jetty @ Bristol Harbour Hotel
Bristol Harbour Hotel is a newly-opened hotel at the former Lloyds Bank building on Corn Street. Despite the name, this hotel is nowhere near the harbour! As far as I am concerned, they can give the place any damn name they like when the food is this good! The appetiser was a chunky fish soup […]
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Pieminister’s brunch menu
Pieminister are running a promo of 50% off brunch menu items on weekends in November and December. I went there too late last Sunday and couldn’t get a seat. I had The Banger – an open-top pie. The smoky baked beans were too sour and watery and the sausage was too peppery. The Banger is packed […]