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 […]