Cool Chef Gadgets For The Home Kitchen 2023

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best chef gadgets for the home kitchen

As a professional Chef, and a husband and dad, I cook at home for my family fairly often. My Chef’s tools usually stay in my commercial kitchen, but our home kitchen is also well-equipped. Here are a few favorites, useful, maybe more unusual Chef’s gadgets to use at home. These make great gifts for the … Read blog

Travels in Malaysia

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Travels in Malaysia. This Malaysia travel page will help you plan your own travels in Malaysia and let you know what to expect. It’s full of Malaysia travel tips and the best places to visit in Malaysia for travelers and tourists, along with our personal first-hand experiences. We’ve visited Malaysia many times now, visiting diverse … Read blog

Nepalese Cuisine

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nepalese cuisine dishes

What is Nepalese cuisine? Nepalese cuisine has similarities with the cuisines of nearby countries. Nepal has borders with Tibet (China) and India, making Nepalese cuisine a blend of Indian and Chinese influences, Bhutan isn’t far away from Nepal and some foods can be found throughout the cuisines of the Himalayan region. I find Nepalese cuisine … Read blog

Idli. What is Idli? (Food)

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Idli

Idli, What are idli (the food)? Idli are fermented rice cakes, served with sambar and chutneys, predominantly in South India, but also found in other countries. Idli are one of my favourite foods in the whole world, which is a big claim, for something so simple. These little fermented rice cakes can be found easily … Read blog

Things to do in Sri Lanka

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Things to do in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has just been voted as one of the top 10 countries to visit by Lonely Planet.  With over 200 countries to choose from it’s a great recommendation from LP and thrusts Sri Lanka into the tourist spotlight. I’ve visited Sri Lanka numerous times including for my wedding, honeymoon, and with young children. It’s … Read blog

Greek Food

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Traditional Food in Greece To eat or To Cook

Greek food has some fantastic recipes that are easy to make at home. The cuisine of mainland Greece and the Greek islands includes fresh local ingredients, tomatoes, olives, citrus fruits, goat and sheep cheeses, fish, and seafood in the coastal regions. Greece is maybe an unexpected player in the best food in the world game. … Read blog

Breakfast Around The World

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Breakfast Around The World Chef Sri Lankan hoppers for breakfast

Traditional breakfasts around the world, from a lifetime of travelling for food! We cover some of the best traditional breakfast meals in the world in this post, from Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and parts of Africa, even the United States of America. Do you look forward to breakfast in the morning? I do, … Read blog

Weird Foods to Try

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Weird Food from around the world

Weird foods, that we have seen with our own eyes and, in some cases, eaten on our travels. Most of these foods we found in Asia, often in the less touristed local markets but one is from our second home, Romania. Some, the brave or foolhardy members of our family ate spiders, all of us … Read blog

Traditional Australian Food

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Traditional Australian Food prawns

What is traditional Australian food? Modern Australia is a young country and a diverse blend of global cultures, histories, and cuisines. Today there are several unique Australian dishes and foods that are hard to find outside Australia, along with local Australian variations on international cuisines. We give you a list of foods widely considered to … Read blog

Tzatziki

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Garlic Yogurt Sauce. Greek Tzatziki

Tzatziki is a Greek favourite that’s now popular all over the world. You can easily buy tzatziki in stores and supermarkets but homemade tzatziki is nicer. In this post we talk about tzatziki, what is tzatziki and variations on tzatziki. I give you my tzatziki recipe and tips on how to make real tzatziki. Tzatziki … Read blog

Food and Travel

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World Food by Country World Travel Chef Blogs

People often love discovering local food and travel destinations. Combining the two while learning extra culinary skills as a chef, has been a dream come true for me and many a traveller travels to taste new dishes. This page is the core of our food and travel blog. We have straight travel content, we have … Read blog

Vietnam Travel Tips

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Vietnam travel tips coconut vendor scam to avoid saigon

Vietnam is an amazing country full of beautiful people, stunning scenery and delicious food. Little wonder it is becoming one of the biggest tourist destinations in Southeast Asia. Read on for my Vietnam travel tips for both the seasoned traveler, first-timers or 2-week holiday-makers. Like any destination, it always pays to do your research before … Read blog

Best Visa For Vietnam

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Appropriate visa for Vietnam

With so many options out there which is the best visa for Vietnam? It’s confusing I know, it confused us so we had a good dig into the visas available and the regulations, official, scam, and for profit. Everyone has different needs so I’ll go through the options from the free 15-day exemption for those … Read blog

Ho Chi Minh City to Phu Quoc

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Best ways of getting from Ho Chi Minh to Pu Quoc

Phu Quoc is tipped to become one of Vietnam’s major drawcards in the future and is already well established as a tourist destination amongst well-travelled people. Getting from Ho Chi Minh city to Phu Quoc isn’t as straightforward as other parts of Vietnam mainly because Phu Quoc is an island off the south coast of … Read blog

Laos Street Food

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Street Food in Laos

Street ladies abound in Laos, you’ll see them on every street where tourists gather. Street ladies I hear you say? I am strictly talking of the pancake-making variety. In Luang Prabang and here in Vang Vieng there are loads of friendly street food vendors lining the sidewalk offering fresh-cooked Laos-style street food. Baguettes, pancakes, noodles, … Read blog

Bangkok To Siem Reap. How to get from Bangkok to Siem Reap

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How to get from Bangkok to Siem Reap Thailand to Cambodia

One of the most travelled journeys across Southeast Asia is from Bangkok to Siem Reap. Siem Reap is the town closest to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Angkor Wat in North-Eastern Cambodia. A sprawling ancient city of deserted temples dating back to the 12th century Khmer Empire. Here we discuss how to get from … Read blog


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