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Cafe Duy Tri

Coffee with frozen yoghurt.
By all accounts this combination should be nasty. When it was first suggested I wrinkled my nose and steered clear imagining a sour affogato, unpleasant fusion striking again. I mean its frozen yoghurt (which I like to call frogurt) with a shot of coffee poured over. How could it be anything but [...]

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eat me restaurant, Bangkok

For a city of 6.5 million people Hanoi is still quite provincial. After a few months here the bright lights and bustling modernity of Bangkok was mesmerising, air conditioned public transport, shops with clothes that fit, food from all around the world and other such wonders. It was in cosmopolitan Bangkok that I decided to [...]

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iberry homemade, Bangkok

I know that many of you are waiting patiently for more Vietnam posts, they are coming I promise, but Pikelet and Pie is going to experience a brief Bangkok interlude, starting now.

L-R Taro, pumpkin and almond, mafi, mangosteen sorbet and paradise tea
I dislike the appleisation of names as a rule but not iberry. I find the [...]

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Pho Ly Van Phuc aka Chicken Street, Hanoi.

“Have you been to chicken street yet?”. Had I been to chicken street? No, I never even knew that Chicken Street existed. I’d been to tin street, coffin street and christmas decoration corner, but I had never heard those two words placed side by side in a sentence and they sounded delicious together.

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A Tavola, Darlinghurst

In the interest of full disclosure I admit that I ate at A Tavola months ago, all the way back in July – the end of July, granted but still July. Is there a statute of limitations on tardy reviews? If so, I may have grounds to ignore it. This July dinner was in fact [...]

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