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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Random Urban-ness in May

Random urban scenes in May 2022 here in Moscow.

Fishy chips and fishy beer

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Terracotta Solider-like Statue

Here is a Terracotta Soldier-like statue at a recessed alcove in some Moscow Chinese food restaurant.

Here is a report from the restaurant.

In my restaurants today: a Beijing Opera cocktail and Peking Duck.

Beijing Opera cocktail, it's rum based, tasty but one isn't enough for much effect, just a hint of something pleasant.

And half a Peking Duck with garnishes and pancakes.

My Chinese restaurant going disguise.

Not much info online about a cocktail called Beijing Opera, could be some new creation by the restaurant so here is composition.

And like I said it's rum based but better drunk in multiples for it to really work, at least three to five per Hemingway.

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Sunday, May 3, 2020

Copy Photography: Newspaper Images

Some quick newspaper copy photography with my sony rx100 m2

The subject is an article on food from a Russian language newspaper for my food exploration blog in Russian (see below).

No lighting, no set-up and no editing as ever.

Красная рыба на хлебе или хлебцах с маслом или сливочным сыром.

Красная рыба
Хлеб или хлебцы
Сливочный сыр

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Beer and Eating Out Photography: 4 Beers at Pivoteka 465

Here is more in my beer photography series.

Using a Sony RX100 m2 to take pictures, mainly in P but once or twice in a high ISO scene mode, and I generally am satisfied with how it handles dim-lit and low light interiors and like most of the results.

Quoting below from my other blog (one of).

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To get more content for my Restaurants and Beer Exploration in Moscow series, on March 20, 2019 went for beer to a Pivoteka 465 joint (Пивотека 465); Pivoteka 465 being a chain of small craft beer shops here in Moscow.

So that day's Beer # 1 was a pint of tap Bakunin Fibonacci DIPA.

I found it to be alright for Bakunin, everything was true to DIPA, some evil tongues may wag that there was a waft of bad smell about it but I will say that it was just breathing from raw live craft beer with genuine hops, yeast and malt (unless of course it was an unwashed tap); in any case I liked it well enough regardless, pleasantly bitter, hoppy and relatively strong so, 2.35/5, looked good too color wise.

Bakunin (Бакунин) is a Saint Petersburg based Russian brewery, named presumably after Bakunin, the famous anarchist philosopher.

On tap that day.

Beer # 2 was a pint of Salden's Milkshake DIPA with Banana Puree expertly poured for me by barkeep from a can.

Gorgeous color, and I liked it even better; as for my second beer on the day decided to go for something less bitter and more sweet, and so liked this one, nice texture and body and a good nose and it was pleasantly strong therefore effective in the consciousness expanding department, 2.75/5.