Pastel perfection

Street food

Need a food break on the street but don't want a greasy

burger or an over-sweetened frappaccino. There is always

something on offer and you are supporting a small

business , rather than a mega corporation that might

just be homogenising your favourite street's local flavour.

You know the ones I am talking about.

Who wants to eat the same stuff in every

city all over the world?

Unless it is spaghetti.

Get adventurous.

Discover new cuisine.

Add something spicy to your day.

Cherry, Cherry, Baby!

Cherries are so cool. They have to be the

fruit with most street cred.

Why?

I really couldn't say. But no one is about to get

a pineapple tattooed on there hip bone,

are they.

However a tiny bunch of cherries:

Perfect!

There is something glamorous, cheeky

and a bit burlesque about cherries.

A cherry laden bikini top just has that retro

cuteness about it.

Cherries are sexy.

Cherries have had songs written about them.

Cherries even have a cola flavoured after them.

So don't argue with a cherry.

They are a little fruit with a huge personality!

Street offerings

I love the way in so many Asian countries

small offerings are put out in doorways,

shop entrances and especially outside

temples, churches or spiritual centres.

They are constant reminders of how

important spirituality is in our urban

villages.

I also love the way spiritual robes

somehow look so prefect within our cities .

Timeless and minimal, they are more

modern than any other form of dress.

In the west we have appropriated religious

imagery, often loving the drama or symbolic

to drive home a point or make an ironic

gesture. Although tongue in cheek,

they are still evidence of how powerful this

imagery is.