Comments on: Gingerboy: eating at $3.50 a minute

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:47:28 +0000

Elliot, I agree on the total experience and should probably revisit to see how it stacks up a few months on.

By: elliot rubinstein

elliot rubinstein — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:33:52 +0000

Enjoying a restaurant meal is a total experience. Just as you could not enjoy a concert with someone standing on your foot even the most exciting food will not please in the wrong environment. To my mind Gingerboy fails on several counts even before one gets to the food which was not that good anyway

By: Tomato - » Five things you didn’t know about me

Tomato - » Five things you didn’t know about me — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:47:30 +0000

[...] I’ve been tagged by Andrea, an Australian living in Paris, from Buy Organic for the “five things” meme. Sorry it has taken me a while… 1. I was exposed in The Australian today. Yes, it is true that this food blogger soon becomes part of the “enhanced” food media landscape. I was first approached by the Herald Sun (Australia’s biggest selling daily newspaper) last November, it firmed up earlier this month and I finally signed a contract last Wednesday. The column comes out weekly on Tuesdays in the Citystyle section of the paper. While on a similar subject matter, and a rival to John Lethlean’s gossip column in The Age, it is a case of “same same but smaller”. While everybody knows that John Lethlean’s column is quite large, mine is quite small in comparison. I should add that one Sydney journalist said to me last week: “Apparently, John Lethlean’s huge six foot six or something; they can’t miss him when he’s reviewing restaurants.” While I can confirm he is extremely large in Melbourne, Lethlean does get smaller on interstate visits and is roughly normal size overseas. I in comparison remain a throughly modern and rather cosmopolitan 1.9m wherever I travel. I have requested that my face is obscured in my picture byline to maintain some anonymity. I hope to be able to enhance the profile of other local food blogs in my column on occasions. 2. As the above has raised my profile, (and some chefs already know me from my blog) and the gossip maybe getting round, I may as well reveal this one . After my review of Gingerboy last year, John Lethlean and his co-editor Necia Wilden invited me to review for The Good Food Guide. I don’t see any conflict with my column for the Herald Sun (I won’t write about GFG restaurants there) and there appear not to be any restrictive clauses. Most popular disguises: beard/sandals and painted toenails. 3. Currently my toenails are painted acquamarine. The food angle on this is that I was lying on the beach in Cambodia eating a local type of crustacean that looked like a deep-fried giant preying mantis while it happened. Drink: Ice-cold Angkor beer. [...]

By: Mellie

Mellie — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:12:48 +0000

Hiya Ed! Very good point – although isn’t it funny how so many of us allude to Vue de monde as being the benchmark of restaurant perfection. It is certainly deserved of that title though

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:05:43 +0000

Jules, thanks. i may make it a theme although a low cost per minute can also indicate slow service.

By: jules

jules — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:27:09 +0000

Love your dining cost calcs.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:01:42 +0000

Thanks Ellie. I just fancied a bit of Thai boxing or at least a Chinese Burn (I’ll have to try that analogy another time). Luckily, I’m off to Cambodi next month and will hopefully have my head blown off (by chilli, not a landmine).

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:27:18 +0000

Good write-up. Part of why I love Asian cuisine is the intense flavours, so it’s a shame to hear that Gingerboy didn’t deliver on a few dishes. I can’t remember the name at the moment, but there’s a decent little Thai place on Bridge that’s quite good with it’s spices, though still more irate llama kick than angry mule.