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8 June 2014
Luggage at Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport took forever. I took a taxi to the Tune Hotel in Kuta which I had booked for NZD17 (including aircon and towel options). Being central, clean and comfy, it was exactly what I needed for the night. It was straight to bed as it was about 3am in Auckland […]
8 June 2014
This trip centred around going to the UK to attend my nephew’s wedding. I managed to snap up a cheap Air NZ fare to Bali flying during the first week of their seasonal operations which was highly discounted; I qualified for a further discount through my partner who works at the airline. Woohoo! It made […]
25 April 2014
Following on from my red bean cheesecake, I had always wanted to create a red bean crumble. It took me ages before I had… Posted by Alex Chan on Thursday, May 15, 2014
20 April 2014
My philosophy with food is that if it contains enough sugar, fat, salt or MSG, then it will taste good (but there are… Posted by Alex Chan on Saturday, April 19, 2014
13 April 2014
I decided to cook to celebrate two birthdays. Sundanese it is, not Sudanese. That’s West Javan, from the Bandung area,… Posted by Alex Chan on Sunday, April 13, 2014
13 April 2014
Bika Ambon is a honeycomb cake named after the island of Ambon in the Maluku area of the archipelago of Indonesia. It is… Posted by Alex Chan on Sunday, April 13, 2014
5 April 2014
I arrived in Auckland. The immigration officer (actually it is now done by customs staff on immigration’s behalf), looked at my arrival form and noticed that I had been to Sudan. He wrote a capital “T” on it and circled it. After collecting my luggage, I was intercepted by another officer and sent to another […]
4 April 2014
I had seen a phone that seemed perfect for me yesterday for HKD1300 (NZD200). I needed to do some research on it and it shows up as a pretty high spec quad core model. Instead of going all the way back into Hong Kong, we headed to Kwai Fong where we had made purchases before. […]
3 April 2014
I had a short connection in Istanbul. The meals on the flight to Hong Kong were even better than the previous. I couldn’t believe Turkish Airlines had unlimited free wifi for all on board, except for the last couple of hours over Chinese airspace where it wasn’t permitted. We landed an hour earlier due to strong […]
3 April 2014
After Sudan, I vowed not to have any fuul or taamiya in Egypt. I stayed true to this except when on a felucca where I… Posted by Alex Chan on Sunday, March 30, 2014