Austin Bush

2 weeks ago | punchdrink.com | Austin Bush

It was 1985, and the boomboxes of Madeira, a Portuguese island off the northwestern coast of Africa, were blasting Elton John’s “Nikita.” Oh, Nikita, you will never know Anything about my home I’ll never know how good it feels to hold you Nikita, I need you so Specifically, the song was dominating the radio at one particular bar in the fishing port of Câmara de Lobos.

3 weeks ago | culinarybackstreets.com | Austin Bush

“This restaurant is different,” says Belmiro de Jesus. He’s describing his own establishment, Belmiro, which he opened in 2020. And, we have to admit, it’s true. From the menu, with its emphasis on game dishes, to the unique wines – quirky labels that won’t break the bank – the chef has created a restaurant that stands out. If there’s anything we’d add to his descriptor, it would be that Belmiro is also very delicious and very Portuguese.

1 month ago | culinarybackstreets.com | Austin Bush

Start with stale, leftover bread. Add to this some of Portugal’s most decadent, richest ingredients, and you have açorda de gambas, a dish that manages to bridge the gap between poverty and indulgence. The Portuguese are masters at transforming leftover or stale bread into new dishes. In the north, leftover slices of bread are dipped in eggs, fried in oil and sprinkled with sugar in the dessert known as rabanadas.

1 month ago | travelandleisureasia.com | Austin Bush

I LIVED IN THAILAND for nearly a quarter century. I’ve authored and photographed dozens of articles on Thai food and have written and/or contributed to at least six books on Thai cookery. With all this experience under my belt, I rarely get excited about Thai food outside of its homeland. The exception to this is London.  For many Londoners, their first introduction to Thai food was most likely the pub.

1 month ago | atlasobscura.com | Austin Bush

Austin Bush for Gastro Obscura Restaurant 1. Oi Man Sang Hong Kong was previously home to as many as 200 dai pai dong, cheap, informal, semi-outdoor Cantonese restaurants. A longstanding effort to clean up the territory means that the health department hasn’t provided new licenses to any dai pai dong (the term, which Entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, literally means “big license stall”), leaving fewer than 20 of them at press time.