Galway is an old city. It best resembles what the mind conjures up as an Irish city, but it’s young at heart. It’s a popular university town with more students than housing. It supports an evident Bohemian lifestyle with pot clouds rising amongst the buildings. Pubs are elbow to elbow with live music pouring into … More Where to Eat in Galway, Ireland
If you’re heading Ireland way in September, it would be crazy not to plan around the Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival. Check out my experience here!! … More Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival
Qikiqtarjuaq was a new location above the Arctic Circle for me at a time of the year I haven’t yet spent in this area of the world. The Arctic summer is a short season, where the majority of the snow does melt, the permafrost becomes spongy, flowers bloom and the tundra becomes a mosaic of … More Qikiqtarjuaq – Foraging the Tundra
2017 marked my 4th year of traveling the world for good eats. Generally my travels bring me far from Canada, in search of the more exotic edibles not necessarily accustomed to the average North American palate. This year on the other hand, I spent closer to home. While I got a taste of some foods … More Edibles of 2017
Deep in the heart of Binondo, the Chinatown district of Manila, a small, well-known second floor restaurant sits. La Mezzanine serves up many local dishes, but there was one in particular I went out of my way to come get. Soup #5. Now this, this is not your average soup. Yes, it is a broth … More Soup #5 – Filipino Edibles
A battle of gods. Zeus vs. the Titans. Ra vs. Apep. Rocky vs. Apollo. Well, I think the point is made. This is a battle of absolute epic proportions with no distinctive champion in my opinion. If you don’t know what these two things are, I’m sorry! Two of man’s great culinary creations, reaching the far … More Lechon vs. Babi Guling – Filipino Edibles
Most countries I travel to, I usually have some idea about the food I’m going to encounter. Arriving in the Philippines, it was a bit of a blank slate for me with only a couple gaps filled in. Other than adobo and balut each dish was foreign. Knowing it was quite a meat and rice … More Sisig – Filipino Edibles
Indonesia’s archipelago country of 18,110 islands can be surprisingly diverse from place to place. While similarities exist between them, the cuisine runs by the same guidelines. Based on what is best locally, dishes may have the same name yet the flavours can differ greatly. I was jumping into Indonesian cuisine blindfolded with only an assumption that there must be similarities to its neighbouring countries. … More 11 Must Try Indonesian Foods
You may have seen it on t.v. or maybe with your own eyes, but the moment when it’s all over. Skin glistening, juices dripping, the pleasure senses exhausted awaiting this moment. What’s been made is a thing of rarely paralleled beauty. No, I’m not talking about sex… well food porn for sure. The glorious suckling … More Babi Guling, Ibu Oka – Ubud, Indonesia
Penang being the culinary capital of Malaysia and a foodie’s paradise, while eating locally it is difficult to come by a bad meal. Maybe some are not as good as others, but bad… I don’t think so. Everywhere you go in this colonial city good eats can be found. It’s just a matter finding where … More 12 Must Eat Foods in Penang
