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Edible Women (a draft): Wine Tax

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Edible Women (a draft). Sunday, May 9, 2010. I write about this particular issue once a year. And every year the blame game expands to more and more players. But this year I think I’ve stumbled on the truth: we’re all to blame. Here goes. Why is it that two years after Hong Kong abolished its wine tax I’m still paying up to $120 for a glass of wine? 8220;If bars and restaurants see that no one else is lowering their prices, why would they have to? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Edible Women (a draft): August 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Monday, August 2, 2010. Last Under the Table. I came from a family where none of the girls cooked, or even knew how. My mother grew up in a time when home economics was looked at with the virtues of female repression. This combined with the fact my grandfather was a cook, not a chef, rendered the Wong clan useless in the kitchen. As I write my last Under the Table column, I asked my friends in the industry to chime in on how we can make Hong Kong a better dining city. But before w...

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Edible Women (a draft): January 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Thursday, January 28, 2010. The books to have come out of 2009 started from food blogs. And if you think there will be a mass repeat, well, you are right. But if you were inspired by the movie Julie and Julia, in which a moonlighting blogger cooks herself through Julia Child’s Master of French Cooking, but ou do Joy of Cooking instead, well, good luck. Publishers are looking for fresh, but tested. Answer is yes. But with this comes responsibility. You really do need the references...

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Edible Women (a draft): March 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Friday, March 19, 2010. SubSec: Under the table. P/Q: I wondered if I would’ve been a more responsible person if I had to support an egg in my early life. It all started when a delivery man placed a parcel on my desk. “Be careful, it’s an egg,” he said in whispered tones. What is it… sleeping, I thought as I carefully opened the package. Inside a brown egg slept in a soft plastic tube. Who would send me an egg? My chocolate baby and I went everywhere together, to meetings, to lunc...

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Edible Women (a draft): TBLS Review

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Edible Women (a draft). Monday, May 3, 2010. Six courses of wonder. Whenever Chef Que Vinh Dang gets upset his macaroons crack. “It’s the same recipe, same measurements, same everything,” he said. “I don’t know why, but when I’m mad, they come out all wrong.” Good thing we visited when he was happy. The amuse-bouche comes out and my dining partner takes the short rib cube with pickled daikon served on a large silver spoon into her mouth and says, “I think I just came.” The flavours are th...Various witty...

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Edible Women (a draft): May 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Sunday, May 9, 2010. I write about this particular issue once a year. And every year the blame game expands to more and more players. But this year I think I’ve stumbled on the truth: we’re all to blame. Here goes. Why is it that two years after Hong Kong abolished its wine tax I’m still paying up to $120 for a glass of wine? 8220;If bars and restaurants see that no one else is lowering their prices, why would they have to? Monday, May 3, 2010. Six courses of wonder. Whenever Chef...

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Edible Women (a draft): July 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Monday, July 12, 2010. 30 hours on a train Ulaanbaatar. Planes, trains and automobiles, for weeks our bodies were in motion. We haven’t stopped moving for two weeks straight, constantly racing towards our next destination. Speeding at 140km per hour on the motorway in a two-seater Smart Car, my boyfriend opened the window and said, “If I dropped this apple out this window, it will roll at the speed of 140km.”. Younger generations of Mongolians are swapping gers for city apartments...

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Edible Women (a draft): April 2010

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Edible Women (a draft). Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Cafe Match Box Review. So this is what happens when film art director Angelo Castilho dresses up a restaurant. You get the richness of a movie set and the feeling that you are having an experience, not just a meal. Every surface of Café Match Box is covered with bing sut tiles and wood panelling, and the theme of old Hong Kong means retro clocks, old movie posters and stool seating. G/F, 8 Cleveland St, Causeway Bay, 2868 0363. Daily 8am-1am. How I long fo...

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Edible Women (a draft): September 2009

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Edible Women (a draft). Friday, September 18, 2009. I always took pleasure when guys would say," Why are you meeting guys online? You're not the kind of girl to go on these things." I take a strange pleasure in hearing those words. Thursday, September 17, 2009. SUBSECTION: Under the table. P/Q: The Wan Chai Wash— a combination of beer, vodka, whiskey, gin, tequila, and kamikaze shots with a measure of spit and of vomit, then poured over a 5am kabob. Third trait: the origins of the main liquor component a...