#This Is the East

Sixth in an occasional blog series called This Is the East, featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

A few weeks ago I saw some photos of a plate of chips – fries, to the Americans among you – on Instagram.

Fifth in an occasional blog series called This Is the East, featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

On a busy stretch of Van Riebeek Avenue in Edenvale, amidst hair braiding salons and car stereo places and dusty old bookshops, is an authentic, nearly full-sized Dutch wooden windmill. Inside the windmill is a Dutch pancake house and below it is the best Dutch bakery in Joburg.

Fourth in an occasional blog series called This Is the East, featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

The original inspiration for my “This Is the East” series was a giant tub of peri peri chicken livers ordered from O’ Peri Peri, a Portuguese restaurant in Edenvale. Back then I vowed to eat a sit-down meal at O’ Peri Peri and write a proper post about it. Now I’ve finally done that.

Third in an occasional blog series called This Is the East, featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

Cremalat, like many great food places in the East Rand (a.k.a Ekurhuleni), is hidden behind the gates of a bland industrial complex, in a location that’s hard to describe. The place itself is hard to describe as well.

*Second in an occasional blog series called This Is the East,*featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

Have you ever gone to a place where you feel like an alien, even though you’re surrounded by fellow human beings? This is how Ang and I felt at the Rock Raceway.

A few weeks ago, a nice guy named Kevin presented me with a takeaway container of peri peri chicken livers from O’ Peri Peri in Edenvale. I had been expecting a small portion – maybe four or five livers – with some sauce and a few chips (fries) on the side.