Egg net rolls (Po Piat Tot)Egg nets are those nets made out of fried egg (very complicated description, hey?!) that you see wrapped around other ingredients - they act like nori for sushi - I've also seen fried rice wrapped up/covered with an egg net, not sure if that's a Thai thing or b******ised for foreign audiences! The one we made was the sushi variant, with caramelised coconut and chicken as the main fillings. Hello egg net! THE PREPEgg ...

To deal with Asian food, you need to be okay with two elements - one, is that flavours can be subtle, eg. steamed fish with ginger and soy, steamed brown sugar cakes, and two, salty-sweet flavours. I can wax lyrical about these buns, but if you can't do salty-sweet, you won't like them, full stop. (More for me!) The crust is almost pure sugar, and inside, the already glorious char siu is cooked with a soy-maltose-onion gravy. You think chocolate-coated bacon is a...

Airborne Trains #in-flight This may look like a standard train, but in fact it is the new maglev train, which is air borne, using powerful electromagnets. Maglev is short for magnetic levitation, which means that these trains will float over a guide way using the basic principles of magnets to replace the old steel wheel and track trains. Maglev trains do not have an engine to pull typical train cars along steel tracks. The magnetic field created by...

Little bit of excitement looms as the warning has gone out for an anticipated typhoon this weekend, in our region. When asking one or two people, we understood it was going to be a little more windy. We didn't think much about this, cos we would welcome a breeze in this stincking heat! I then hoped onto good old google and found out a little more about this wind. Well, perhaps wind is the only term the Japanese know to explain this natural disaster. I would ...

Osu Kannon (大須観音, Ōsu Kannon) is a popular Buddhist temple in central Nagoya. The temple was moved from the neighbouring prefecture (which is much like a province in South Africa), Gifu to its current site by Tokugawa Ieyasu (very strong man) in 1612. The original temple was repeatedly damaged by severe flooding (which prompted its relocation), and was almost completely destroyed by fire. The current buildings are 20th century reconstructions. The main ...