A vegetarian oasis in central Saigon
Vietnam is often touted as a food mecca for die hard Asian cuisine lovers, but finding somewhere to eat as a vegetarian isn’t so easy. Even if you eat seafood, it is often stuffed full of pork or poked in a chunk of beef. But in central Saigon there is now a place where you [...]
How to make zingy Khmer mango salad
You can’t go wrong with a Khmer style green mango and chicken salad, especially when it’s made with one of their locally grown staple ingredients – Palm Sugar. You could change the chicken for some hard tofu or go all out and add some extra nutty cashews. Perfect for steamy Cambodian nights. We likey. You [...]
Diggin’ the organic farm life: wwoofing in Cordoba
Collecting water from the well wasn’t exactly something I could have said I’d done lately. As virgin wwoofers we where in need of a patient and mature teacher. And as it worked out, Shamballah just happened to be the idyllic setting for our first time working on a farm. After three months of impersonating slugs [...]
Gluttony on a budget
Champagne on a beer budget is a good Aussie expression I like to refer to, even though I know it doesn’t sound like much fun to skimp on food! Fine tuning our taste buds, to reflect our wallet, has been an interesting challenge – but we haven’t exactly been going hungry. We have managed to [...]
