I’ve expressed my love for Vietnamese food here before; it’s so fresh, delicate and healthy.  Vietnamese food was fairly poorly represented on the streets of Dublin until recent years, when new places like Neon and Aobaba started springing up. They’re very welcome, it’s a great cuisine and can be very affordable. There’s a new spot [...]

The Little Green is a relatively new cafe, bar and gallery at 13 High St, right by Christchurch in Dublin city.  The venue has been a number of different pubs over the years, none of which were particularly memorable, but the owners of the Little Green Cafe have done a beautiful job on the interior.  [...]

One of the absolute best sandwiches of my life was a Vietnamese Banh Mi, eaten in New York’s Chinatown with my great friend Hegsie two years ago. This food came about as a result of French colonialism in Vietnam – it’ s a French-style baguette combined with fresh, spicy Vietnamese ingredients, and is both delicious [...]

Some really interesting new restaurants have sprung up around Dublin in the last year or so, and I was really pleased to hear about one in particular that’s doing ‘Asian street food’ – Neon on Camden St. I’ve often bemoaned the lack of affordable Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese food in Ireland. It’s starting to catch [...]

Have you ever tried black rice?  It’s available in most Asian shops but it’s something I rarely see on menus.  I first had it in a delicious salad,  in an amazing vegetarian restaurant in New York (it was years ago and I have tragically forgotten its name) and have been cooking it at home ever [...]