Put the diet on hold. Yes, you heard us correctly. For most people, January is a time to recover from the excess of Christmas, making sure you eat healthily so you can get back into your jeans/dress and avoid alcohol to let your liver recover. If that’s you, great, but you can count us out!

Whilst we’re all for tradition but who’s up for an alternative Christmas dinner this year? After all, by the time the 25th comes around, the chances are you have already had your fill of turkey dinners, what with office Christmas parties and alike, so why put yourself through it again? By the time you have had […]

Doffing our cap We recently went for a meal in the lovely city of York. After ordering drinks, the bread was brought to our table. Was the bread brought to us on a plate? No. Was the bread brought to us in a bowl? No. Was the brought to us in a basket? No. In […]

It’s Halloween but rather than talking about the food people eat on Halloween (there’s only so many recipes using pumpkins!) I am going to share a recent ‘spooky’ food experience I had recently. My wife and I were on holiday in Malaysia when we had decided to have ‘dining in the dark’ meal. We had […]

I spoke in a recent blog about my preference for smaller, tapas-style, plates when I am eating in restaurants and at it’s National Curry Week, it seemed perfect timing to discuss how Indian food can fit into this category. Back in the day, you sat down, ordered a sauce-laden main course like Chicken Bhuna and […]

Is everyone enjoying British Food Fortnight? The theme of this year’s event, aside from celebrating how amazing British food is, is rediscovering long-forgotten traditional recipes that were once unique to particular areas of Britain.

Whilst we love to talk about them, we admit that some food awareness celebrations get us scratching our heads (World Nutella Day is one that comes to mind) but National Rice Week is not one of them. After all, as we specialise in chilled Asian food, it would be a little silly of us to let this […]

Is everybody enjoying Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight? This is a nationwide event which supports and promotes Scotland’s produce and the people who grow, make, cook and sell it. We’re big fans of Scottish food and are proud to make food here in the SK kitchen which is enjoyed by so many people north of […]

It’s Bastille Day. This French national day commemorates the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, an important event in Paris in a violent revolution that had begun two days earlier and which would lead to the country becoming a republic. Like most national days, food plays a big part in the celebration and […]