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  • Traversing London for Chinese dumplings

    Traversing London for Chinese dumplings

    2nd June 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    One of the first things I missed when I moved to London was somewhere to get a quick, cheap, fresh dumpling fix. A night on the tiles in Melbourne’s CBD will often include a plate of Shanghai dumplings at a no-frills café in Chinatown, much like Londoners go for a late-night curry to refuel between pub and club. In fact, I can’t think of another Melbourne tradition that unites the...

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  • Trainspotters’ guide to the Victoria line

    Trainspotters’ guide to the Victoria line

    22nd April 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    You know you’re well on the way to being a London local when you can converse about tube lines like you might your favourite pizza topping or U2 album (e.g. everyone has their favourite; most will have one they truly detest). In fact, I’d say the tube map is more of a London icon than Buckingham Palace or Big Ben – although beware, new Londoners: it’s not spatially accurate! (Hands...

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  • Skate your week off to a good start

    Skate your week off to a good start

    22nd January 2010 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    There’s something a little peculiar about warning signs outside a venue forbidding knives and weapons on the premises, when you’re lined up amongst young women in casual corporate wear, and it’s 8.15pm on a Monday night. The scene gets altogether more bizarre once you’ve paid three quid to the man at the entrance who’s thoroughly checking all bags (“you can’t take your water bottles upstairs, sorry ladies – we’ll hold...

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Megan Gannon

Megan Gannon

Megan Gannon's interest in style, design and the English language can be traced back to an Honours degree in Art History and her first job as a reporter for a country newspaper in Victoria, Australia. Since then shess crafted a CV writing for print and online publications, and is currently grappling with the challenge of finding the best dumpling houses and ethnic eateries in her new hometown, London.