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Au Crocodile
Posted May 30, 2007 at 03:00 AM by lapetite
While in Strasboug, my group took an afternoon for lunch at the two-star Au Crocodile. And what a lunch it was! This being the low-season for fine restaurants, the Etoiles d’Alsace is running their yearly Formules-Jeunes promotion, which means people under 35 can get a delectable two-star meal (and five courses worth of [...]
tsukiji fish market
Posted May 18, 2006 at 11:48 PM by Omar
The Tsukiji Fish Market is a wholesale fish market in Tokyo, right by the Shiodome. Business begins at 5:30 in the morning. Fish and other seafood are laid out and restaurant buyers converge to pick out their product for the day. By 7:30 am most business has been completed and housewives descend on the market to do their shopping with what's [...]
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Posted May 30, 2007 at 02:02 AM by lapetite
France is rightly famous for its sweets and pastries -- there are few more decadent pleasures in life then slicing into a rich, gooey fondant au chocolat or elegant tiramisu. Still, sometimes a girl gets homesick for the treats of her youth... Which is why, when I saw a rack of freshly-baked donuts at my local patisserie, I just had to [...]
Hunan, Hunan, Hunan - Morning Entry
Posted July 03, 2007 at 02:44 AM by Mr Wheelie
Woke this morning and lay in bed trying to figure out what I was going to do. From outside my window a lot of noise was making its was to my ear drum. On further inspection I saw about 20 mopeds with riders wearing sashes across their chests. I quickly got dressed and followed the adhoc procession down the street.I then found myself at [...]
Holiday Hangover
Posted May 30, 2007 at 01:45 AM by lapetite
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years… The holiday season is dead and gone, with not a hint of revelry on the horizon until Valentine’s Day, right? Ah, but that’s because you don’t know about La Fête des Rois.Even as a kid, I always thought of La Fête des Rois as a sort of “hangover [...]
