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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These days, my weary self yearns only for one kind of travel, to time travel to the pre-covid era — when I could travel on a whim, even with a very limiting Indonesian passport.…
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I am writing to you mid-flight, in between Jakarta and Melbourne. In between Indonesia and Australia. In between Saturday and Sunday.…
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Do you remember precisely when Covid turned your life upside down? Mine was when I reached Bali and got a plethora of text messages about the then-new-to-me Covid thing. That was two years ago. Today, I get to eat Amma’s homecooked meal at the dining table together with my parents. And for that, I…
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