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Friday’s Featured Food: Facebook Ice Cream in Yerevan, Armenia

Friday’s Feaured Food time on Don’t Stop Living. So you picture the scene. I’m walking nonchalantly through the streets of Yerevan, Armenia’s capital city. I’m on Northern Avenue. The sun’s beating down, it might be the last warm day of 2013. So I decided to have an ice cream. On arrival at a local ice Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Facebook Ice Cream in Yerevan, Armenia[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Adjarian Khachapuri in Batumi, Georgia

While my motives for visiting Batumi on Georgia’s West Coast were purely visa related (I got my Azerbaijan visa there), I found myself with time on my hands as I waited around. Every morning in Batumi it was time for a massive breakfast/lunch feast. On the first morning we got a tip off from Nina Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Adjarian Khachapuri in Batumi, Georgia[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Pakhlava Dessert in Baku, Azerbaijan

Baku in Azerbaijan is full of surprises and as I backpack my way round some completely off the wall and not even on any beaten path places, I have also taken time out to try the local food. First up – a short post on Pakhlava, an Azerbaijani dessert. Well worth a try! Where can Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Pakhlava Dessert in Baku, Azerbaijan[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Breakfast in Yangon, Bagan and Mandalay, Myanmar

Here’s a direct honesty for you today on Friday’s Featured Food – food in Myanmar is bland, going on abysmal. I’m not a big fan and I feel it a duty to tell you just how untasty and innutritious the breakfasts in this country really are. This is in some contrast to my travel blogging Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Breakfast in Yangon, Bagan and Mandalay, Myanmar[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Peking Duck at QuanJude Restaurant, Beijing, China

While Beijing will never be my favourite city in China, it does hold a few saving graces. Tiananmen Square is a great place to relax, Beijing is the gateway to the Trans Siberian Railway and also for our recent trip to North Korea plus there’s Peking Duck!! On Friday’s Featured Food I was initially going Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Peking Duck at QuanJude Restaurant, Beijing, China[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Making Rice Leaf Dumplings in Chongqing, China

A recent travel highlight was being in Chongqing during the Chinese “Dragon Boat Festival” this year. It was mid June. I stayed in the excellent, highly recommended Green Forest Hostel and they were having a rice leaf dumplings night in the hostel so I joined in of course. It was great fun. First of all Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Making Rice Leaf Dumplings in Chongqing, China[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: An Ugali Feast in Arusha, Tanzania

It’s time for Friday’s Featured Food and for the second week in a row we head to Africa. This time it’s to the city of Arusha in Tanzania, where I was based for a few nights before and after our Safari experience. It’s also the second day in a row for me to have my Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: An Ugali Feast in Arusha, Tanzania[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Ethiopian Vegetarian Combination in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

When I arrived in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia for the first time this month, I had no idea what to expect from the food there but I was willing to try as much local food as I could. I started off in the capital city and I tried what is known as a Vegetarian Combination, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Ethiopian Vegetarian Combination in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia[…]