Cha Xiu Bao

Breakfast Report from Budapest: Raking the Kozponti Vasarcsarnok (Central Market), 4 times!

I am very ill-rounded as a traveler in that all I love to do is to eat, eat, and eat when I travel abroad. Don't get me wrong, I do other things. I even like to do other things. But when asked for what I love to do when travel, that's it. Everything else is dispensable filler with minor consequentiality. Like most of you, I design my trip centre around food.

Needless to say, knowing that there are hundreds of food stalls at the mezzanine of Kozponti Vasarcsarnok (Central Market of Budapest) -- and all open in the wee wee hour of the morning just send thrills of pleasure through and through me. Perfect spot to make up the first half of my day before I hit the famous Gerbeaud Kavehaz.

Sorbet for Adults

Let's get this right out of my chest first -- I was tempted to think about something a little bit more dynamite (something like this, to say the least) when I saw the title!

This is exactly the reason why we need a more rigorous standard on journalism nowadays!

[via wsjdigitalnetwork]

Chaxiubao's Fishy Project Part II: A Trilingual Fish List for Your Sushi Game

341.

Below you'll find a trilingual list comprising 341 fishes (aquatic animals, to be exact). First column in Japanese, in either hiragana (平仮名 ひらがな) or katakana (片仮名 カタカナ) script, most with a kanji (漢字かんじ) follows in parentheses; second column of romaji to help you pronounce the name and in the third column is the common name of the fishes in English.

The best thing about this list is that all romaji names are arranged in alphabetical order so that even those with very scant Japanese knowledge can breeze it through and find out the Nemo he wants.

It takes me 3 weeks to patch up this list and it tops my original bilingual fishy project in leaps and bounds. I know I gonna fish out the "A-game" with this from the sushi syokunin (寿司職人, sushi master in English) behind the sushi bars in Japan come January. Yay, I gonna eat like fish in water with this fishy list of mine! 

Perfect Christmas gift ideas

O, share some love, share some holiday spirit, share some lovesick cookies that reeked of "a-fro-di-si-a-k!"

Wish you all a very crunchy and raunchy Christmas [Pipparkakan]!