Pacifico-Asian sprawling suburbs might not be as cool as the melting pot Roskill-Albert-Sandringham hyperspace continuum, but like an…

I'm just ever so grateful to NZ post that they very kindly made my code 3210, otherwise I'd never remember it. Now if only they'd change the 3 to a…

Tze Ming, I've just realised, one of our registered users proudly displays his residence as "Hamilton – City of the Future".

Does that mean you'll have to fight him for Roskill honour? My money would, of course, be on you.

I'm trying to work out whether my Ham-town street-cred would…

One time, I ordered french toast from a hotel cafe in Hong Kong

"I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."

Steve Wright

Try finding decent 'western' food…

Or the inexplicable preference to random stuff drenched in sweet-and-sour sauce made using industrial process.

Oh God, New Zealand's odd affection for dodgy sweet-and-sour sauce. That goes back a way. The night of our senior ball, my date and I went to The Chinese Restaurant In Christchurch That All The…

One time, I ordered french toast from a hotel cafe in Hong Kong, and got what appeared to be a deep-fried peanut-butter sandwich with golden syrup drizzled over top.

You know, there are probably people who think that sounds like a good thing ...

This morning cholesterol jolt – aka…

there are probably people who think that sounds like a good thing ...

It wasn't bad, just...odd. Better than the bacon and eggs.

Also, I went to a macanese restaurant and got this great spicy beef with rice, but it had spam and eggs slapped on top. I'm still not 100%…

there are probably people who think that sounds like a good thing

You mean Elvis?

Worst culinary mistake I ever made (no, not the haggis & chips in Jedburgh) was ordering bacon & eggs on a Thai train...

If I'd been less groggy from a pretty muggy & sleepless night I'd have known…

One time, I ordered french toast from a hotel cafe in Hong Kong, and got what appeared to be a deep-fried peanut-butter sandwich with golden syrup drizzled over top.

You know, there are probably people who think that sounds like a good thing ...

I know it can work – but for example, I somehow doubt that foodcourt butter chicken (Indian food cooked by Indians for their idea of what white people want ...

Balti's a great example of that. It's frequently perceived as a genuine style of cooking, but seems to have emerged…

I guess that's happened to various cuisines as they've migrated anywhere

One time, I ordered french toast from a hotel cafe in Hong Kong, and got what appeared to be a deep-fried peanut-butter sandwich with golden syrup drizzled over top.

Didn't the Roskill/Eden dry areas go in the same election year? Ah, yes, I think I was wrong, it was the 1999 election, Roskill wasn't an electorate in '96.

Aha – in the 1999 election, the licencing districts of Eden, Roskill and Tawa also had a referendum on "local restoration".…

I guess that's happened to various cuisines as they've migrated anywhere

Yes – some of it's great, and some of it's terrible, and it's a total crap shoot. Don't ever ask for a fruit salad in China, you might get tinned peaches with thousand island dressing, which is not a…

Mt Eden's been moist since 2000.

Didn't the Roskill/Eden dry areas go in the same election year? Ah, yes, I think I was wrong, it was the 1999 election, Roskill wasn't an electorate in '96.

Ultimately, these are the choices of the chefs/restaurateurs themselves and reflect their compromises and expectations of what the market will respond to when it has 'ethnic' in mind ...

No doubt. But I guess that's happened to various cuisines as they've migrated anywhere (eg: Singapore, or the Vietnamese take on…

Ooh, now we see the cultural generalisations ... when have I ever asked anyone to dilute a recipe? Keep this up and I'll have to start making fun of your kiwifruit nectars ...

There, there pet! Er, what's a kiwifruit nectar? You mean those gallons of green stuff you get…

Dojo in Wellington is a rare example of both fine-tuned classic dishes and successful contemporary Asian fusion in a classy joint

Dojo was great, and I'd have to confirm by popping down 4 flights of stairs, but I believe it has reverted back to a branch of Chow. I'll look…

Isn't Roskill one of the old "dry suburbs" like Mt Eden?

Mt Eden's been moist since 2000. Back when the referendum was held, I'd just moved into a flat in Mt Eden and received the ballot posted to a previous tenant. I made his vote count.

You mean Monsoon Poon doesn't cut it as 'sophisticated'?

Heh.

I'll take it – and hide the map so that all the white people don't turn up there en masse, encouraging the chefs to dilute the recipes, as has happened to so many places in the past... It's not the…

The food of the future here might just be a bit low-rent according to Cuisine magazine – the current issue has an editorial about the lack of sophisticated Asian restaurants.

You mean Monsoon Poon doesn't cut it as 'sophisticated'?

Perhaps the palate compromises that come with 'ethnic' restaurateuring is why…

Does that mean you'll have to fight him for Roskill honour? My money would, of course, be on you.

Defined! is the new owned.

93f1n39!

And what is our futuristic food? For those in the know down Southwest Central, the grounds of Wesley Intermediate and War Memorial park provided no muesli bars this weekend ...

Heh. And I was down with my pale homies in the south, conducting traditional firewater rituals and eating mouldy fermented…