And it's vegetarian, too.... brilliant! I'm going to try it....

I always thought a liquid diet was the best....

...the countdown has begun. The beavers are completing their statutory six-month quarantine period before being released into the wild this spring.

'A swelling number of scientists believe swine flu has not happened by accident. No: they argue that this global pandemic – and all the deaths we are about to see – is the direct result of our demand for cheap meat.' - from the Independent today.

Recent evidence shows that Ashy Macbean is not in fact extinct, as was previously suggested by his long interval of inactivity....

Memory is subjective and I may have omitted some of the worst from this list and it's possible I'm being over-harsh in my ranking of the places I mention, but I think I've narrowed my all time travelling list of worst breakfasts to the fo

This is a common Lao breakfast but up until yesterday I was unable to find a veggie option - now I know it's very tasty and should be easy to make. I tried the river weed too, yesterday... not bad at all and goes nicely with a chilled beer Lao....

That's one of the veggie offerings on menus in Luang Prabang. We saw some kids collecting it from the river and bashing it to a pulp with wooden sticks.

I found a restaurant that does both Lao and Thai vegetarian food. They serve veggie green, red and yellow curries and phad thai, and also Veggie tom yam.....

Last one was in Nong Khai, on the bank of the Mae Khong river, before we crossed over to Laos. We seem to have travelled all the way through Thailand without me blogging anything... but that just means we've been busy enjoying ourselves...

Here's a nice recipe from Hat Yai, a city in southern Thailand on the main route (both road and rail) between Singapore and Bangkok, and beyond. it's a city with a large Chinese population, a lot of Thai muslims and a fair amount of Malays, t

We've been on Lankawi for several days now. We arrived on Christmas day on the ferry from Georgetown.

I've been eating a lot of tofu since we arrived in Malaysia. This evening I had braised bean curd with assorted mushrooms at the Tai Tong restoran in Georgetown, Penang. I had a bottle of soy milk with it...

Crawling along in the car from Unawatuna to the airport, the windscreen wipers on high speed barely able to cope with the torrential rain, the five different versions of Silent night and the club version of Come all ye faithful just sound bizarre..

We're coming to the end of our week in Sri Lanka. The last three days have been particularly relaxing... swimming at Unawatuna beach and enjoying the local food.