As I Xi It v2.3

Here’s a timelapse I did while having breakfast with Xiao up in Roast at Borough Market. Fairly busy, even if it was post Christmas.

A View from Roast from Xi on Vimeo.

Here, Watson demonstrates how he likes to eat a sunflower seed.

How Watson Eats Sunflower Seeds from Xi on Vimeo.

While in the supermarket in Helsinki, Wingkit and I came across some Finnish versions of British/American favourites.

First up, Domino’s which are basically Oreo’s. These were vanilla with a toffee centre. The biscuit bit was crunchy, as expected and a bit lighter in shade of brown than Oreo’s and a bit sweeter I think overall. Quite tasty, but then most chocolate biscuits are.

Oreos

Jaffa cakes

I think I have potential as a food photographer.

Wonderful

I saw this and just had to share! I’ll be serving these up at my next function.

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On the left is the lasagna Anja, Xiao and I made when were were in Germany earlier this year to visit Anja and her cows (mooooo!). On the right is the lasagna Anja (and John?) made last Saturday when I went over to theirs for dinner.

Lasagna Germany consisted of cream cheese with spinach filling with some sort of bechamel sauce and cheese topping (probably gouda). Lasagna UK contains beef mince bathed in a tomato sauce with the bechamel sauce and gouda topping (still think it would’ve been better with cheddar). Both lasagnas were mighty tasty, but there was the odd crispy bit from undercooked lasagna sheets in the latter.

The other day I popped into Walkabout for dinner in Covent Garden. It’s an Australian pub decked out in Australian regalia and they have some great burgers on offer.

I had an ultimate springbok burger. Three layers of meaty springbok with two giant onion rings towering above a salad and side of chips all for only £8.95, a bargain! The springbok had a nice, dense, gamey taste and texture and it was a touch smokey in flavour.

The onion rings were much bigger than your average onion rings and the batter stayed on once you bit into it unlike lesser quality onion rings where the onion just slides out when you pull your teeth away. My only complaint is that I wished there were more of them.

I found this via The Consumerist – Click here!

It’s simultaneously funny and creepy.

They’re my new favourite thing to eat with a mug of tea. First there were 10, now there are 4. They’re of dutch origin, a layer of caramel sandwiched between two layers of thin waffles. If I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life, these would be it!

After watching an episode of The Simpsons (A Star is Born-Again), I was inspried to make this little film. Benny Hill and tea, apart from draping the union jack in the background, what could be more british??

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