Film menus Ma khin Café

I simply love travelling. I had a very happy childhood, and when I was just six years old my parents took me and my siblings on holidays to Tellaro, a beautiful picturesque village in Liguria,in Italy. My mother loved to go every morning to the small pier to buy fresh fish directly from the boats that had just come in, which she would prepare for lunch in the house we had rented. Even today the smell of mussels steaming takes me back to Tellaro, the place where I tasted this delicacy of the Mediterraneanfor the very first time.

This week I was invited to take part in La Magdalena de Proust, Santiago Guerrero’s programme on Plaza Radio. I was struck by the name of the programme. The theory of Proust’smadeleine (or the “Proustphenomenon”) argues that smell is the sense best able to awaken long forgotten memories. It is the theory that explains why, even today, the smell of mussels steaming takes me back to Tellaroin 1971.

But, let us go back to travelling, an activity almost forbidden to us during the last two years of this damned pandemic. We have tried to circumvent the restrictions imposed on our freedom of movement by creating “virtual”trips. Playing with our senses of smell and taste, food has allowed us to explore new places and also, in Proustianmoments, to travel once again to places we had visited in the past that left their mark on us.

Discover the movie menus at Ma Khin Café

Films also offer us the possibility of travelling without leaving the city where we live. From 31 January to 11 February we are offering, as an alternative to travelling,our Film Menus as a tribute to cinema and food. At Ma Khin Café, we have borrowed inspiration from Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Womanto offer the possibility of tasting a Chinese-Taiwanese menu.

In the film’s opening scene, the main character, an elderly revered chef who is losing his sense of taste, is preparing the weekly meal he has with his daughters. Seated around the table, each member of the family talks about their lives and loves. Come and join us for a meal and submerge yourself in the flavours and aromas of this classic Asian movie with our hot-sour soup of bamboo shoots and lily flowers.

We will also treat you to steamed fish or braised cheek with soy and ginger wrapped in Chinese onion bread. Film menus at Ma Khin Café. Dust off your passport and book your ticket now!

Baalbec

I simply love travelling. I had a very happy childhood, and when I was just six years old my parents took me and my siblings on holidays to Tellaro, a beautiful picturesque village in Liguria, in Italy. My mother loved to go every morning to the small pier to buy fresh fish directly from the boats that had just come in, which she would prepare for lunch in the house we had rented. Even today the smell of mussels steaming takes me back to Tellaro, the place where I tasted this delicacy of the Mediterraneanfor the very first time.

This week I was invited to take part in La Magdalena de Proust, Santiago Guerrero’s programme on Plaza Radio. I was struck by the name of the programme. The theory of Proust’smadeleine (or the “Proust phenomenon”) argues that smell is the sense best able to awaken long forgotten memories. It is the theory that explains why, even today, the smell of mussels steaming takes me back to Tellaroin 1971.

But, let us go back to travelling, an activity almost forbidden to us during the last two years of this damned pandemic. We have tried to circumvent the restrictions imposed on our freedom of movement by creating “virtual”trips. Playing with our senses of smell and taste, food has allowed us to explore new places and also, in Proustian moments, to travel once again to places we had visited in the past that left their mark on us.

Films also offer us the possibility of travelling without leaving the city where we live. From 31 January to 11 February we are offering, as an alternative to travelling, our Film Menus as a tribute to cinema and food.At Baalbec, a meeting place of Mediterranean cultures, we want to recall FatihAkin’smovie Crossing the Bridge. Although a music film, it is sustained by a philosophy I share with its director: personal growth and evolution through meeting, sharing and learning together. Our menus —from Jerusalem artichoke hummus with Greek cured meat and zaatar, to a rockfish tagine, as well as lamb kofta with ras al hanoutyogurt—will take you on a trip to countries on the other shore of the Mediterranean. Film menus in Baalbec.Dust off your passport and book your ticket now!