Can I love Melbourne as much as I love Japan? This question comes to me almost every morning ━ when I have to layer my clothes to go to work.…
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Seeni Sambol bun is an icon of Srilankan food culture and from the little readings I did, it's a part of many childhoods.…
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The candy guy in Cairns Night Market recommended the swimming hole Babinda Boulders to us when we told him we were going on an undetermined road trip the day after. It was his hometown, he said, and I swear I could see the twinkle in his eyes when he told us about it. I…
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First, I am unsure whether I should even write this post because the Indonesian restaurants in Cairns were below par.…
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I finally had crocodile meat in Ochre, Cairns. Eating crocodile meat has been in my yearly goal list eversince I moved to Melbourne. I was so thrilled to finally tick it off of my list. The meat itself wasn't so good. It tasted like white fish but with the texture of chicken meat.…
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I am not sure what I expected from a stroll around Rusty's Market in Cairns, but I was served with a trip around the world.…
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Cairns has always been on my Australia-to-visit list after I moved to Melbourne. It's higher on the list than Brisbane and Perth.…
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Holi, a festival celebrated widely in India, marks the arrival of spring on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunar calendar.…
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It has been a while since I write the supposedly monthly NoNe series - so here I am trying to recap the last three-plus months into a short blog post.…
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The Filipino pop pup market was relatively small ━ around ten-stall. It was dominated by Filipino products, from food to books.…
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