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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:43 AM

Day 54: Snorkelling, "a laang way fram home"

Today, I had one of my best meals on this holiday. Today, I struggled to have a conversation in English. The meal was two large red snappers in a Caribbean coconut curry, flavoured with rosemary, whole pepper, Jamaican allspice, a light-green local chilly...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:38 PM

Day 50 addendum: And the samosa read my blog post

Today--day 51 or day 52--i got samosas as part of my plated dinner. I shrugged the chip off my shoulder and gobbled them--they were baked and yummy. I ate them with Costa Rican salsa picante. The host showed up at our table later to ask how dinner was...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 7:12 PM

Day 50: The samosa´s taking over the world

It´s official, the samosa is the new Genghis Khan. Today, when we reluctantly wandered into town for dinner because the chef at Banana Azul, where we are staying, had her weekly off, we saw an all-you-can-eat meal lead starring The Samosa. Samosas have...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:20 PM

Day 48: The joys of nothing, Puerto Viejo

Take a look at the gentlemen in the photo below. They reminded us of the joy of doing, well, nothing. If it sounds to you like that´s what we´re doing through this 90-day journey, you couldn´t be more wrong. We´ve been on the move: travel, packing, transport...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:16 AM

Day 37: Why Vikram Vij should move back to India PHOTOS

( Photo: #35 in line at Vij's ) Everywhere we went in Vancouver his name shadowed us. On the first night in the city we hit a bar with a friend. "Vij's is just down this road," he said. "You must go." At our favourite food...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:14 PM

Day 33: Where life is too short for boring food

If, like us, you love chillies, don't miss the "Wall of Fire" at Granville Island, 10 minutes from downtown Vancouver. It's located in the Granville Island Public Market, a fiery wall of shelves stocked with chilly sauces from all over...
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Monday, May 12, 2008 4:20 AM

Day 29: Why can't we do this in India? Plus, fish recipes from Sydney

This morning we visited the Sydney Fish Market ( www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au ). Mindblowing. There was seafood from Alaska, China and Peru. Blue Cod, Flounder, Atlantic Salmon, Barramundi and Abalones from Australia. An oyster assembly line. Fresh tuna...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:20 AM

Day 4 Singapore: 10 Things to try at any food court

We actually encountered this advice on Day 2 of our trip, but you know how it is when you're on holiday. Discipline and daily blog writing is the last thing on your mind. Anyway, we've made up today. So I had to rush to a smiley Singaporean doctor...
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