Eating, restaurants, drinks and fast food takeaways in the sunny seaside town of Bangor Northern Ireland on the ‘Gold Coast’ (North Down) near Belfast.
The original title for this somewhat pointless series was ‘eating weird stuff from weird shops’. Chosen by my wee nephew (the son of my big nephew) when poking around the weird and wonderful food at our local B&Ms. Saying “bet you wouldn’t eat that”. So it became a challenge of sorts. However I have renamed …
I am a crap cook. Not because I don’t like cooking, but because I am surrounded by kickass cooks who complain when I do things wrong. And… why bother. But I am familiar with food, and what I like, and have picked up some simple recipes and cooking techniques just by watching others. So now, …
In my many years of blogging, I don’t think I have ever mentioned the 4 years that I wore a suit and worked up at Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings. Why? Because it never has been relevant to my writing, and it was just so tediously boring. As the highlight of any day was perusing the …
This Takeaway Tuesday comes (on a Thursday) from “The Green Chilli”, one of the longer-standing Indian restaurants in central Bangor (Dufferin Avenue), and is a takeaway I have been fairly familiar with through the years. In fact, I was even at the original opening years back, when the Mayor at the time kept referring to …
I really don’t understand the whole ‘eating out’ thing, where you pay twice the price, for mediocre food, while sitting in stuffy, uncomfortable surroundings. At the same time, I would forever choose chip shop food over any restaurant that I know. Because there are differences between chip shop food and restaurants, where, for example, I …
Back in 2018, the Asian Supermarket Belfast (aka known as the Chinese Supermarket Belfast) moved from its otherwise lifelong location on the Ormeau Road to what is now a short-ish distance further at the Ormeau Embankment (40 Ormeau Embankment: Google Map Location here). A move that makes very little difference to our own journey, given …
We do spend much of our years in Asia, where I find myself with unlikely cravings for Northern Irish food. As in Southeast Asian cooking, it is rare to find even an oven in a home kitchen, and I can think of few regional beef dishes other than Thai Massaman, Indonesian Rendang, and maybe a Filipino …
I’ve found myself in an unlikely routine with Bangor’s old folk, where I’d wake and be working at 05:00AM, before joining the retirees of the family for their routine cafe breakfast. At the same time, I’m really not one for cafes or coffee shops, and my only incentive would be for a good traditional Ulster …
