Category Archives: house keeping

It’s time for another holiday

I know, right! I just had six months off, do I really need another holiday? Well if you take in to account the fact that I just worked for two months (full time! Go me!) then the answer is most definitely yes. Since I left Australia I have been to Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos and [...]

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Cocoa brownies + my 201st post on Pikelet and Pie

Excuse me please, things have been a little bit crazy over here. Trying out loads of new food has been taking up some time (from ‘Vietnamese’ BBQ to frozen margaritas), there has been the farewelling of friends (you wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to send a dog to America from Hanoi), and now I’ve [...]

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On holidays, again.

Pad Thai, Bangkok, Jan 2010.
Hello! Just to keep you all updated on my jet-setting ways (hah, as if), I am leaving Hanoi today for a well earned rest (lets just forget that I haven’t worked since October) in warmer climes. I’m off for a few computer-less weeks in lovely Laos, via Bangkok if the political [...]

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Pikelet and Pie featured in Cleo

Hello! Guess what? Pikelet and Pie has been featured in the February edition of Cleo!

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Media mentions and press are great for bloggers, especially food bloggers. We get a little limelight, increased traffic and hopefully appear less strange when we take photos in restaurants. We get a whole different audience for [...]

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The 2009 that was.

Time flies faster with every passing year. I remember when ten minutes felt like an eternity, now a morning can disappear in a flash. It was just 12 months ago that this blog moved to its current home and in that time it has grown beyond my expectations. I’ve visited, eaten, shopped, cooked, written and [...]

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