Tag: food
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Timor-Leste traditional food
I have lunch once a week with my boss. Last week at lunchtime, we both had to go to the airport, a short drive from our office (me to farewell a friend and pick up some books; he to drop a Christmas gift), and he suggested we go together and eat lunch at the airport’s warung,…
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How I shop in Timor-Leste markets
A few small words that helped me last year: satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima. Like Latin proverb they may look, they’re actually the numbers one to five in Bahasa Indonesia, and the key that unlocked the magic of Timor-Leste market shopping for me. Any visitor to Dili will come across the fruit market at Lecidere,…
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Lunch in Lecidere
Most lunchtimes I walk the 10ish minutes from my office in Audian to the suburb Lecidere, which sits just back from the beach road. It’s a busier suburb than Audian, with more cafes and lunch options, and if I don’t make lunch plans with a friend I’ll often run into one anyway. Today I walked…
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A mid-morning meat-ing
My boss and I were in the four-wheel-drive, heading back to the office after a mid-morning meeting, when he asked if I had a minute. I replied yes, and he pulled the car curbside and parked, gesturing to the restaurant we’d stopped outside of as he said, “I want you to try something.” We squeezed…
Sophie Rai Liur 