When you’re in a bad mood, or you just need to celebrate… When you’re frustrated with where you are in life, or you’ve achieved something outstanding… When you’re mourning the absence of someone from your life, or ecstatic because of someone’s presence… …there’s always dessert. Gallery 1: Ice cream from Baskin Robbins Gallery 2:…
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A chocolate addict’s heaven: Chocopologie
[2017 EDIT: This venue is now closed] I had to scope out Chocopologie for a piece I was writing for Jazeera magazine and decided I might as well make a meal out of it. Yasmin, of Red Panda Bakes fame (you can find her on Twitter here) was giving me company; perhaps the best person…
Love me, then leave me
Promise me the world. You look perfect. Tell me you’ll stay with me, every step of the way. Entice me with your lusciousness, your sweet taste and your pretty looks. I bite, I freeze and let the juices flow. I fall in love, I delve deep into your mind, your soul and understand what makes…
Don’t slip on the shrimp*
The food blogger crew strikes again! A group of us decided to go to Xiao Wei Yang in Deira for some Chinese hot pot. Essentially, we get the boiling broth and we throw all the ingredients we want in…and eat! After foraging for parking (yes, it felt like foraging), I finally stuck Guido (yes, my…
The Italian Pizza (Atlantis food blogger safari Part 4)
Catch up on the first three parts! – Part 1: I Woman. I Eat Meat. – Part 2: Cow, cow cow! Mushroom, mushroom! Oh it’s a chicken! – Part 3: Cheese Trek I like how Ronda Locatelli looks. It has this earthy, warm atmosphere, with the dimmed lighting, the woody interiors and the use of…
Cheese Trek (Atlantis Food Blogger Safari Part 3)
<William Shatner/James Kirk voice> France: the final frontier. This is the voyage of FooDee. Her never-ending mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new cheese and new cheesecake, to boldly go where no foodie has gone before. </William Shatner/James Kirk voice> After some beef, and yet more beef, we’re off to a completely different…
Cow, Cow, Cow! Mushroom, mushroom! Oh it’s a chicken! (Atlantis food blogger safari Part 2)
In case you’re wondering what my trippy headline is about, I suggest you watch the Badger Song*, and sing the headline along with the beat! We continue where we left off, traversing from the land of beef to… more beef? Awesome. The Burger Joint is a newly opened…err…burger joint at The Atlantis. We were told…
I Woman. I Eat Meat. (Atlantis Food Blogger Safari part 1)
That’s Sally right there. She’s responsible for why I could be found around 5pm on a Friday leaning against a wooden pillar, moaning softly. Now, now, don’t jump to weird conclusions. I was merely stuffed after 3 hours of going on a food safari at the Atlantis, Palm Jumeirah, and I could do nothing but…
Drown in decadent, thick, rich and sexy chocolate
Look fearfully off the precipice…wonder if you’ll be able to survive the fall? Take a nimble step, dip your toe in the richness of it all. Inhale as the chocolate flows through your veins. Take a leap of faith. Drown in decadent, thick, rich and oh-so-sexy chocolate. Note: Chocolate cake from Zaatar W Zeit is…
Of luscious kababs and fluffy naan at Ravi’s
What would it be like, to be a Lilliput in the middle of the table set before me, I wondered? To run amok amidst the chargrilled chicken tikkas, to break off a piece of chicken as big as a boulder and devour it? To skip over to these soft, massive mounds of kababs and nibble…
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