.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Golden Gate cake shop, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Just of the main drag of Gerrard Street is one of Chinatown’s best bakeries. You squeeze into a shop not much bigger than [...]
I got invited to the opening of an exhibition at Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen celebrating 60 years of the People’s Republic of China. I found it fascinating as it showed how China views itself.
Tsui Wah is a regular sight here in Hong Kong with 13 branches around the place. It provides good quality food at a reasonable price. It has a menu that covers Chinese dishes, Malaysian curries and western food. Vegetarians are catered for too, I enjoyed a nice vegetable curry with a fried egg and rice. [...]
Bleeding Heart is a famous set of eateries around a cobbled yard between Hatton Garden and Farringdon Road. As part of a client meeting we tried the restaurant at the back of yard. Descending down a set of stairs you are greeted with warm ambient lighting and an interior that would be all-traditional French restaurant [...]
Theatreland in London’s west end is usually frequented by people out of town. There are a plethora of restaurants that provide pre-theatre deals providing mediocre food at London prices to the unwary. Boulevard Brasserie is a pleasant change from the ‘tourist farms’ in the area. It does what it says on the tin: an informal [...]
Great Titchfield Street is a road running north from the Oxford Circus end of Oxford Street that has been a haven for small online businesses since the first UK dot com boom. Though overshadowed by the Silicon roundabout of Old Street and trendy Clerkenwell, north of Oxford Street is start-up central. I took time out [...]
A trip to the Hayward Gallery is as much about the building as the contents of the exhibition in question, an though I enjoyed the Ed Ruscha exhibition, I spent much of the time enjoying the wooden mould relief that covers the concrete of the building both inside and out. It is a weird mix [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Britain’s largest Christmas tree at Cheshire Oaks, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. In the dull sky of winter this looks more like a monument to fallen cosmonauts than a Christmas tree. Its [...]
I took a trip out to the design museum and needed a caffiene fix on my way back to Tower Bridge tube station. It was in the redeveloped warehouses of Shad Thames that I came across Caffe Paradiso. The coffee shop serves italian food, sandwiches and Italian sweet pastries and good coffee. It has a [...]
I went to the Royal Academy Summer Show, the highlights of the works on display was David Mach’s postcard montages. Wondering around Piccadilly I came across Napket. My curiosity was piqued the mix of kitsch traditional and modern interior design. Previously The Wolesley restaurant was the place in London for weekend brunch. When I went [...]
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