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Has the Wenlock Arms been mentioned? Love that place, just of City Road up Wharf Road a bit. Scruffy, loads of real ale and friendly people (I asked a woman in there what she would recommend as she was drinking an ale and she insisted on my trying a bit of hers..!) http://www.wenlock-arms.co.uk/

some spanish places in london nowadays serve their pork properly rare...

cool, a fellow fanboy! I have her three books also, she said on her blog she is working on a new book, not sure what it's about. I made beef steamed in a rice meal crust a few week ago - interesting tho not as nice as some quick and easy stir frys. This is the same idea and looks pretty...

Yeah I'd love to try some Cambodian food. I'm sure there are great Thai places out there, like the Heron, just got to find them...

I eat loads of Vietnamese cos it’s easy to access around Shoreditch and I can go for lunch but I’ve never found Thai that’s really got me going. I want to go to the Heron but does anyone know of anywhere else that also does proper good Thai food, there must be millions of dishes beyond the few...

I love when you finally get around to watching a classic and it lives up to its reputation. I had the same experience with Paris, Texas.

Nasty jack is the best grime guy on twitter IMO, had some hilarious ones. I loved 'Yea I need a push bike! But I'm not lending one of Horis Jonsons government ones! I'm sure they are bugged!' Horis Jonsons government bike scheme would have been a wicked name for it!

Yep this is the bomb. Obviously it's very regional specific to Sichuan but it's a great window into the food with lots of recipes but also bits of history and background which is fairly interesting. When i first got it i flicked through and thought hmm, looks a bit complex but when you actually...

http://pumpclipparade.blogspot.com/ seems topical

maybe sometimes badly kept pints? makes a massive difference, i think London Pride can range from pretty terrible to really tasty, and a nice Deuchers is delish

http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html Check this out, weird and brilliant.

I love all of Ballards ideas, but his prose just isn't as good. Like you say, it seems to be a deliberate thing but in Crash, as I think we've noted before, the sheer amount of references to seminal/windscreen fluid, broken phallic gearsticks, chromium shiny whatnots and all the rest got a bit...

Finally getting stuck into 2666, all the chat here reminded and inspired me...good so far.

ok sounds pretty interesting, i think i've actually had one of these once in Brussels. i remember the comparison to champagne - the flemish red sounds pretty interesting. i remember perhaps not loving it massively, acquired taste and all that (some proper cider is like that - almost rotten...

so what exactly is geuze?

there does seem to be a bias towards very citrusy hops at the mo, and some of those are supposed to lead to passionfruit/mangoy tastes and smells i read somewhere

that sounds amazing, i love weird old school things like this..

The Kernels' Pale Ale is a nice one, lots of citrus hops but the body beneath that th back it up. I do wish there were more fully flavoured ones around 3.80, i accidently ordered a bottle of IPA a few weeks ago when already drunk and it was about 7% and pushed me over the edge to getting...

Yipin China in Angel is another one - not been to it tho. http://yipinchina.co.uk San Xia Ren Jia on Goodge St also http://www.sanxia.co.uk Le Wei Xiang in, erm, Lewisham looks good too, tho mainly Sichuan. My mates said it was nice, good hot pot with tofu and pigs blood cubes...

hardcore version with vodka - bullshot