Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.