Month: September 2026

Food & Drink

How to order at a night market without a menu

Point, count, pay: the four-step method that works from Taipei to Marrakesh, plus the phrases worth learning first.

September 9, 2026 1 min

Food & Drink

The north’s fermentation revival

Preservation was a necessity, then a curiosity, and is now the defining technique of Nordic cooking. Where to eat it, and how…

September 7, 2026 1 min

Drink

Six coffee rituals worth rearranging your morning for

From an Ethiopian jebena ceremony to a Neapolitan caffè sospeso, the customs that make the drink about something other than caffeine.

September 6, 2026 1 min

Food & Drink

How to eat street food and stay well

The advice that actually correlates with risk — and the widely repeated rules that do not.

September 4, 2026 1 min

Drink

A field guide to low-intervention wine, region by region

Beyond the cloudy-bottle cliché: where the movement started, where it went commercial, and where it is producing the best value now.

September 3, 2026 1 min

Food & Drink

Inside the cha chaan teng

Hong Kong's tea restaurants are a post-war invention that turned colonial British habits into something entirely local.

September 1, 2026 1 min