Monday, February 26, 2007

Where Do I Begin?

I think it was the way she gobbled up her warm chocolate brownie at the Hard Rock Cafe that caught my eye and made me sit up and take notice that fateful evening. Or maybe it was the way she spoke of her mother's beef noodle soup, the delicate name dropping of the various ingredients rolling off the tip of her tongue that made my heart yearn for the same taste that was lingering in her mind.

Whatever the reason, we became fast friends and swift dining partners ever since then, cavorting across continents, sampling each region's delicacies and moving on to the next like Galactus on a hunger binge. In this case, there were 2 Galactus' hurtling across the universe, ever hungry, ever looking out for that next cuisine to dig in.

Thank goodness for great genes (and jeans). We don't look like two gigantic bouncing masses, but we sure have the appetite to conquer a universe populated with unknown eateries and bistros in far flung corners of the globe - and we have the photos to prove it (of the food, I mean).

It's heartening to know that even distance can't keep our stomachs apart. Though we live on different continents now, we still meet up halfway, or sometimes in each other's backyard for that occasional feast around town and a weekend of bistro hopping.
We even talked about writing a travel book with a gastronomic twist, but that's still a thought in progess, and in the meantime, we're snapping up photos of our meals and jotting down notes of the amazing cuisines we've discovered on our journeys together.

And you can read about it and sample every morsel in here.
Bon appetit.
D