The Boat House, Stanley, Hong Kong

A Beautiful setting. 30min from Hong Kong islands centre you can be sitting on the top floor of the boat house, at Stanley, enjoying views like this. 

We ordered a mixed shell fish bucket with Thai green curry sauce and Fish and Chips. I was fantastic, the muscles were huge and really soft, massive and meaty clams and prawns. The fish and chips was also huge, the fish was a really soft and succulent Sole, with home made chunky chips.

W Hotel, Hong Kong

Simply Amazing!

I can not recommend this hotel more!

This was our welcome to the best hotel I have ever stayed in.

Complimentary cocktails, plus a picture of the surprise welcome for Rachel's (my girlfriend) 30th!

Bali Feast

On a recent trip to Bali, in-between site seeing, surfing and laying on the beach, I managed to squeeze in some of the local food. One night we had dinner at Made's Warung, which is a gorgeous Indonesian/Balinese food with an old charming and rustic feel. The speciality is the Nasi Campur, which is a mixture of about 10 different meats, rice and vegetables. I also tried the crispy fried duck and Satay is a must at every meal.

L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, London

Next door to the Ivy in London you will find one of my favourite London Restaurants. 

On my recent trip back to London we visited L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon for a 3 course pre-theatre dinner. I took a snap of other dishes that looked particularly interesting, however, my dishes were the Mushroom soup, with poached egg and the slow cooked beef stew, topped with creamy mash potato. Obviously Joel Robuchon would describe them with a lot more pizazz, but unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the menu.

Rick Steins St. Petroc's Bistro

Another one of Rick Steins Restaurants. Our second day in Padstow and lunch was a 3 course meal at St. Petroc's Bistro. Calamari, Mushroom risotto, and Sticky Toffee Pudding with Clotted Cream.  

Rick Steins Seafood Restaurant

On the evening of the London leg of my Design Bridge Food and Wine trail we visited Rick Steins Seafood Restaurant. We had the sample menu and it was fantastic. Fish overload, but what do you expect. My favorite was the Fillet of Sea Bass ‘A La Plancha’. With roasted fennel seeds and sauce vierge. The best fish course I have ever tasted.

Padstow and Rick Stein's Seafood School

With reference from an earlier post:

http://singforyadinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-this-space.html

I was one of 2 lucky winners to fly to the UK and join our London office on their part of Design Bridge's 25th Anniversary. The UK leg of the celebration was in Padstow, Cornwall. 

Part of the 2 day event was a half-day class at Rick Steins Seafood School.

4 dishes were demonstrated by one of his top Chefs. We then had the option to cook one of them. I chose, 'Salt and Pepper Squid'.

Khmer BBQ

5 different meats to cook on the coal fueled BBQ situated in the centre of the table. You will notice 5 little symbols sticking out of each of the pots of meat, each distinguishing what type of meat it is. We had, Beef, Ostrich, Kangaroo, Crocodile, and Snake.

Beef, Ostrich and Kangaroo were really tasty with a tender texture, whilst Snake was a bit tough and Crocodile was so tough you couldn't even bite through it. I think there is a reason why they are top of the food chain.  

Khmer cooking course, Part 1

Part of Design Bridge's Food and Drink Trail of Cambodia, was a Khmer (Cambodian) cooking course.

The first part of the day was gathering our ingredients from the local wet market.

Nest, Cambodia

With reference to a previous post:

http://singforyadinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-this-space.html

As a designer at Design Bridge Asia, I was invited on their 25th Anniversary Holiday to Cambodia to take part in a Food Trail. Perfect blog material. 

Nest, was our first destination. A 3 course lunch, with a few accompanying local beverages, Angkor Beer.

Watch this space....

I work for a brand design company called Design Bridge. This year they turn 25 years old. Over the past 25 years we have worked with food and drinks companies throughout the globe. To celebrate this, each of our 3 offices are heading on their own individual foodie adventure. London to Padstow, Cornwall, UK. Amsterdam to a Maastricht, Netherlands. Singapore to Cambodia!

As a special twist, Design Bridge ran a competition to win a silver ticket. A lucky draw that gives the winner the chance to attend not only their own office trip, but one of the other offices.

All the offices hooked up via video call and the draw took place......... and one of the winners is........... Me!

Watch this space I will capture both the UK and Cambodia trip.


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A Day in the life of India

Whilst in India, The Times of India, was running a piece about 'A day in the life if India', here are a few of my favourite shots from their paper and website, but but you can find thousands more...

http://adayinlife.timesofindia.com/

Kangaroo in Australia

A 7 hour flight from Singapore and I am in Sydney! So, I had to be a typical tourist and try a Kangaroo steak. Very enjoyable, it reminded me of Venison, tender beef with an irony taste.

I had the steak medium rare, on a bed of mash potato, topped with asparagus, courgettes, charlottes, garlic cloves and a red wine sauce.

In between bridge climbs, catamaran trips, gigs and chilling on the beach I also indulged in some familiar western treats, such as beef pie, mushy peas and gravy and a full english breakfast or 2.