Inspiring! Feel the bite of the travel bug

Just read this....amazing! Imagine 3 years with nothing but a backpack, definitely a life changing event.

Imagine all the food ...

Delicious voedsel!

Thats delicious food! in Dutch.

What: Saturday just gone I ventured with my chummy Tegan to the Auckland Museum for their special exhibition 'Kai to Pie', something like a United Nations of food. i.e. more food, less American veto.

Which country: As you my o so clever people may have guessed, this week was Dutch food.

Not that I had any idea what that may have been, since we ahem missed out on the actual eating part of the exhibition. Tears.

However the exhibition itself was tasty, for the sense that is.

Highlights include a giant wall of paper plates

A fashion catwalk of food appliance...how vougel..

And some Dutch people

It's free for Aucklanders, on every next couple of Saturdays and a good way to "educate" your tongue.

O and there were some dudes from the Korean Navy marching that day...strange but alluring in their uniforms.
Outta10: without food 6, with, who knows?

Widening thine horizon

Ok so I had a little think, and I can't write forever and ever about food.

Cue gasp.

I have an inkling you, my 3 blog followers all of whom I directly beseeched to follow my blog, would get bored.

So I'm gonna write about some other shit, after all this is the LIFE critic, not the food critic.

So some stuff to come (hopefully)

- cool stuff i see on the net e.g. pictures, videos
- some home made videos yay
- other tidbits of my life of which you will be totally interested.

Sweet!

How not to make a toasted sandwhich, courtesy of Slurp Cafe

Some traditions should be done away with e.g. anti-semitism. Others, like the craft of making a good toasted sandwich, should not.

A good toastie is like a left lung - you don't really pay attention until its gone.

Thus I contemplated the culinary education of the person who made the disaster I was chewing. Notice - chewing, not eating.

What: Ham and pineapple toasted sandwich

Where: Slurp Cafe, level 0, Kate Edgar commons, UOA.

Ok, I get it, UOA is a 'business' now and thus is under regulation to squeeze every last penny from us. But does this policy have to extend to food as well?

When I ordered ham and pineapple, I did not for one second think they would include just that. Not a morsel of cheese to combine these two ingredients. Cheese is a given, like bread.

Ham - can't really remember. O that's right, because there was like, 1.45 pieces in the sandwich

Pineapple - another tradition that shouldn't be broken - pineapple should be in nice little digestible cubes. NOT A RING A LA CANNED WHOLE PINEAPPLE.

Bread - don't get me started. You know the shape that a toastie is supposed to resemble, edges tight, middle bread part puffing out with the filling almost bursting.

This? Looks (and tastes) like the chef used spit to glue the bread together, then fire-torched it for a couple of seconds.

Outta10: a dismal 2 if I ever saw one, I highly recommend it in place of metamucil.

The $4 Japan experience

Life is funny. Sometimes you can go for months without eating anything interesting, other times, you find a place like Happy Bear whilst waiting for a friend to shower.

What: Happy Bear

Where: Queen street, opposite the movies

What is it:

Courtesy of Wiki

Taiyaki (たい焼き, , literally "baked sea bream") is a Japanese fish-shaped cake.

You may think fish+cake=vomit, to which I reply, you otta be ashamed of yourself.

For $4, you can have a drink (Hot chocolate in my case) and a fish-shaped waffle with (chocolate/custard/red bean/cheese) filling, hailing from 1909 Japan.

This is the real thing, complete with good service from a cute little lady who doesn't speak English.

Read: gesturing.

For a rainy day snack, whale-meat free, check it out. Let Happy Bear make you Happy.

Outta10: 7.5