KK’s A‑OK

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! The Malay­sia Kit­chen Pro­gramme has done its best to keep me sober by con­tinu­ing to send me to unli­censed res­taur­ants, but finally I […]

Candidates: James Shaw for the Greens in Wellington Central

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them.  1.       Who are you and what do you want? I’m James Shaw and I want Wel­ling­ton to show New Zea­l­and and the world what […]

Candidates: Paul Foster-Bell for National in Wellington Central

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? I am National’s Can­did­ate for Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral – I want your party vote for Nation­al […]

Candidates: Sea Rotmann for the Greens in Wairarapa

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them.  Who are you and what do you want?  My name is Dr Sea Rot­mann and I want NZ to be green and […]

Top times at Kopi Tiam

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! Today’s Malay­si­an quest takes us out of the CBD to New­town, but luck­ily park­ing is easy at New­town Mall and we can do […]

Wellington candidates – we want to hear from you

Remem­ber when we asked ques­tions of may­or­al can­did­ates? Well it might have escaped your atten­tion while people chased a little ball around a field, but there is an nation­al elec­tion in less than a month’s time. Holy shit! If you are run­ning as a can­did­ate in the Wel­ling­ton region, we would like you to answer […]

Fast, fresh, tasty and kind of awesome

On Thursday night, our old bowl­ing league arch nemisisisis bud­dies Click­Suite  launched a new iPhone and iPad app called Fast, Fresh and Tasty. We went along because we were prom­ised food and drink, and you know how good that is at get­ting us to leave our houses, but we were pleas­antly sur­prised by the app itself. Fast, […]

My kingdom for some booze with my satay!

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! Satay King­dom (Shop 212, Left Bank, Wel­ling­ton) is named by many people in Wel­ling­ton as their favour­ite Malay­si­an because of its prices. It […]

Rasa Malaysia – top eats near the top’o Cuba

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! A freez­ing south­erly was blow­ing around Wel­ling­ton when I met with a group of friends at Rasa Malay­sia on Upper Cuba Street, […]

The TAWAs are coming!

Grab your­self a great big vivid and mark off Decem­ber 8 as the day of The Sixth Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. Now go ahead and scribble out the day after as well, as you will be too partied out to do any­thing then. Obvi­ously, we’re quiet because we have all kinds of plans afoot, but for […]