Onigiri, shaped by hand
A grandmother's kitchenThe countryside · Japan · apr 2026No tricks, no equipment, just the right pressure and a lifetime of doing it. One of my favorite hours of the whole trip.
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the dishes
from the road
Everything worth remembering.
Every dish from the tour that I want to be able to find again. What it was, where I ate it, and why it stuck. Search it by dish, by place, by city, or by what’s in it.
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Crab omelette
Jay FaiBangkok · Thailand · mar 2026A torpedo of egg, thin and crisp outside, packed with huge chunks of crab. Cooked over two charcoal woks by an eighty two year old woman in ski goggles. Split it between two people.
read the story →Pad thai in an egg crepe
Thip SamaiBangkok · Thailand · mar 2026The signature, wrapped in a paper thin egg crepe like a packet, prawn oil in the noodles. Four generations on the same corner. Get the fresh orange juice with it.
read the story →Green curry with rib eye and roti
RongrosBangkok · Thailand · mar 2026Eaten on the terrace with Wat Arun directly across the water. The room used to be a garage.
read the story →Coconut ceviche
OjoBangkok · Thailand · mar 2026Real Mexican cooking three hundred meters up, from a chef who came out of Alcalde in Guadalajara. Eat it by the window at sunset.
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La MarLima · PeruAnthony showed me the fish, ají limo and Peruvian lime before we watched the ceviche line during service and sat down to try the dishes.
read the story →Wood-fired flounder
La MarLima · PeruWhen I thought lunch was over, Anthony cooked one last piece of flounder over the wood fire. Butter sauce, croutons and whipped Peruvian potatoes.
read the story →Ramen with Chef Shun
Yatai Ramen ShunyacchanTokyo · JapanWe made chashu, broth and tare in Shun’s prep kitchen before loading the cars and building the cart for service.
read the story →French onion soup pizza
Creation WinesHemel-en-Aarde · South AfricaThe pizza from the live cooking session at Creation Wines. The recipe is published by Baking Steel.
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