Perhaps the closest the Taiwanese get to a national dish is Beef Noodle Soup but even this isn’t eaten universally as many of the country’s Buddhists won’t eat beef. Instead the country has a vast snacking culture where you can buy all manner of street food for next to no money. Unlike Japan, which specialises …
I’m pretty sure that Orange Pixel, the makers of Stardash, watched the Youtube videos of a game called Asshole Mario (see here), a homebrew version of the Nintendo classic with an insane amount of cheap tricks and nigh on impossible difficulty. Stardash is tough, real tough but the stages are no longer than 35 seconds …
Day Two and we went to my girlfriend Wynn’s step-dad’s Japanese restaurant. The food was spectacular, starting with assorted sashimi, followed by more appetisers, then California rolls and possibly the best ever sushi created; Grilled Halibut Nigiri. Not sure of a better translation for Scallop Lips… sound gross, taste ace. This is one rare type. …
Taiwan sits at the heart of Asia with a complex history of ownership and colonisation. Thankfully, despite much political wrangling, there has been peace for the best part of 60 years which has allowed the island to flourish economically and get on with the more important business of feeding its inhabitants. Sitting so centrally in …
The simplest way to save jobs and protect the quality of editorial content is to charge readers. However if a poorly implemented online paywall is installed as that by The Times, it is apparent that readers simply stop engaging with that online edition and move elsewhere for news. The FT has a strong online subscription …
It’s been a great week for my belly. Three restaurants, lots of martinis and a kebab. First up last Sunday was Dong San, an excellent Korean restaurant in Soho. Populated exclusively by Koreans reading the Sunday papers, sipping beer and snacking on BBQ, Dong San needs to be visited immediately. On the far left, the …
This isn’t longpig but it’s not far off and is sure to impress despots and maniacs in equal measure. In a world of increased knowledge of world cuisine, chefs like heston blumenthal have resorted to convincing people that offal, ear and hoof are the height of fine dining. but alas with so many tv chefs …
Months late to the party here’s my take on True Grit, the multi-nominated western that is the same as every other western ever released. Oh my days, why is everything so brown and arid in all these films. It’s always so fucking brown. You know there’s a point where the girl is trying to convince …
With films going the way of all action no plot and a lot of modern art so inane, perhaps it is time for video games to become the art form of the 21st century. Films combine storytelling and character analysis with a stark visual styles that have the power to astound, but this type of …
family has a lot, and I mean a lot of shit art in its houses. There’s some real tripe from Tracey Emin, a picture of man in a carpet, some prints and aside from it all being universally awful, it’s also very very expensive. Since so much modern art is toilet, I’m going to start …
