Food

Lamb meatball curry, gingery chicken and coconut-lemongrass rice – trying out Burmese food

I recently followed my first ever Burmese recipe, for a lamb meatball curry, to a surprisingly successful conclusion. I had never knowingly eaten Burmese food and neither did I know much about Burma-now-Myanmar and its cuisine. The recipe listed sixteen ingredients, which is on the cusp of being too many for the likelihood of not …

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The psychology of the lunch box – bento in Japan

Japan transforms me into a hitherto unknown person who loves cute, jangly, dinky, plastic unnecessaries. Similarly, a lunch box obsession, both eating from shop-bought bento and buying packed lunch boxes, emerges and, through purchase of the latter, continues for at least a few months back home in the UK. Bento means “the useful thing” or …

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