It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Last Friday evening at an exciting Champagne fueled event held at Egg But Towers the winner of the 2009 Egg But No Bacon competition draw was officially revealed. In front of a crowd of expectant fans, who had travelled across the globe to witness this long awaited event... ah hang on, no.. what really happened was I wrote all the names on a little scraps of paper jumbled them all up and picked one out from a domino box. Still I thought it was pretty exciting. And the winner is... jacquesroyal!!! Woop! Well done! And well done me - out of all the entries I manage to pick the one from New Zealand! And here I was thinking I could just sneak it in my next shipment home of souvenirs to be re-packed and sent out on arrival. The post offices here love me. And I love them. Especially the lovely lady in Ha Tien Post Office who charged us a full kilogram of postage for going 20g over. Grrr. Now is not the time to rant Leanne, let it go. So what did he win? A bundle of goods that can only be described ...

It has been our staple breakfast meal for the last 2 months. It would be a lie to say that we had eaten it every day, but I recon over the last 2 months we must have eaten this dish at least 40 times! Crazy. And we never got bored of it. In fact after only a few days in Cambodia we've found ourselves desperately hunting down an authentic Vietnamese Pho. Each place has it's own little variation on the dish, but the essential base is always the same. Flat rice noodles are heated in a big pan of boiling water and then popped in a bowl with some stock and sprinkled with chopped spring onion (or "onion leaf" - maybe chives?). The bowl is brought to your table along with a side plate of fresh herbs, bean sprouts, limes and chilis for you to add to taste. Amazing! It becomes a bit of a ritual. Before the bowl arrives you start picking the leaves off the herbs ready to drop into the soup when it arrives. Then it's time to stir in a few bean sprouts, maybe a squeeze of lime, a dash of chili and then you're off. It ...

A trip in a small boat to the floating markets of Cai Rang on the Mekong Delta was to provide the setting for the next of our adventures in fruit (WOOP! Just realised what I have just written - how cool this trip is!!) . These markets are incredible. The river was buzzing with life. Hundreds of boats gather piled high with produce from pumpkins and cucumbers to star apples and jackfruit. Each boat has a pole with a sample of the boat's wares tied up high so it can be seen from afar. We spent some time drifting wide eyed through the boats. We hired a guide to come with us so we could ask any questions as we were bobbing along. He told us a lot of the people lived on the boats. As we looked we noticed some were set up barge stylee with pot plants and deck chairs. I'm sure it's not all quite the jolly boating holiday though. These people have little money and live very simple lives. To me on a visit this traditional way of life that has gone on for hundreds of years seems like a beautiful treasure to cling on to. But it is ...

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Just in time for Easter, Egg But has gone all eggy. Be warned though, this is no quick peek while the boss isn't looking post. It demands attention. It's more of a magazine, only it's printed on one long piece of none existent piece of paper. I suggest you print it off, take it home and sit and read it with a lovely cup of tea and a dippy egg. Origins of Easter. You all know about the Christian version of the celebration of Easter, so I don't need to tell you about that. I also probably don't really need to ramble on about the over commercialisation of Easter and the ridiculous amount of chocolate eggs that appear on sale soon after Christmas. Instead I'll talk about what we used to do before Christian times, the original origin of Easter. Eastre was the goddess of spring and fertility. A month equivalent to April was named after her and feasts were held throughout the month to honour her. At the first full moon after the vernal equinox (which is today!) there would be a special celebration. Eggs, a symbol of fertility and nature reborn, were painted brightly to represent the sunlight of spring and ...