May 10th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
We had breakfast at Clover this morning with one cool-looking chaperone: Will’s just-purchased Polaroid camera. It’s 30-something years old (but has no hang-ups about its age or career/marital/mortgage status) and managed to make our order look like it’d been served in the ’70s. After being talked out of my usual Baked Beans and Chilli Labne […]
January 11th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Sometimes you can’t reduce why you like something down to one particular reason. Often, you end up overcrowding your explanation with lots of adjectives – the same way you do when justifying a crush to friends (where you talk someone up as “funny, smart, cute, talented, thoughtful” etc etc, piling on the praise until your […]
March 29th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
If it’s possible to get to know someone over a drink, can you properly size up a cafe from just one simple beverage? The first time I went to La Buena Mesa, a year ago, all I had was a Mango & Kaffir Lime Leaf Frappe and already, I knew I liked this place. Due […]
April 1st, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
I really love this over-accommodating sign we saw at Sushi Bar Rashai the other night. Perhaps it’s no surprise that a restaurant that tags itself as “Delicious! Nutritious! Bit slow but friendly!” would pin something like this to its walls. The mixture of hyper-colour clip art and extreme politeness is what amuses me most: the […]