I am not exaggerating when I say this brand-new restaurant in Mitte is a literal dream come true. Yes, there are some decent Chinese restaurants in town, if you know your way around a Chinese menu and order carefully. But there has never been a place that I fully and unconditionally love with every single […]
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Hey, look! I wrote a book!
For as long as I’ve been living in Berlin (more than nine years!) I’ve been writing about Berlin. This scarred, unruly, beautifully complicated and endlessly inspiring city I call home is both my muse and one of my favourite subjects. On this blog and elsewhere, I’ve been lucky to have many opportunities to tell the […]
Poetic Bibimbap // Ranking some of Berlin’s best Korean
The other night I had the gluttonous pleasure of joining a bibimbap-themed Good Food Tour hosted by the gracious Per of Berlin Food Stories. The night was generously sponsored by a new food delivery startup, Foodora, which I can’t actually use because they don’t deliver to my ‘hood, but I was naturally not going to […]
Oodles of Noodles // Proper Japanese nosh at Ishin Udon Kobo
[Edit: Ishin Udon Kobo is no longer. A loss from which I shall never recover.] One time when I was a kid, I was demolishing a bowl of noodles when my mother discovered to her slight horror that I ate them by sucking down the strands intact. So great was my enthusiasm for eating one […]