In her Thai homeland, a night out for drinks isn't complete without some crispy fried chicken skin on the side, says Bow Manoonpong.

It is a dish that's described as "Shanghai's weirdest foods" by CNN's Kellie Schmitt, but one that is believed by the Chinese to have powers to help your intelligence.

In 1981, Nintendo broke into the arcade game market in North America with one of the first platform video games, Donkey Kong.

Mark Amsler, senior English lecturer at the University of Auckland explains where the word 'Selfie' came from.

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The story goes that a chef in Singapore wanted his South Indian-style food to cater to Chinese customers.

Melissa and Charlie come as a pair, having lived together with a previous owner, and would like to be adopted.

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Few dishes in the world can claim to have a festival held in their honour, but each year in December, Filipinos gather in Angeles City, Pampanga, for the Sisig Festival.

Who said real men don't wear pink? All Black Dan Carter celebrated the New Year by embracing his feminine side and wearing a pink-striped onesie jumpsuit.

This summer, World director and designer Denise L'Estrange-Corbet will ditch the pavlova for her favourite festive dessert from her childhood.

They call her Annie Oyster, the bubbly, hard-case face of the seafood stall on the outskirts of Coromandel town.

Daniel McDonald started last year battling his second cancerous brain tumour in eight years and beginning what would turn out to be a long slog to find a job.

Inside stories of Kiwis working in the hospitality industry.

When Trelise Cooper moved out of this spectacular beachfront holiday home, another powerful woman moved in.

For the Herald's 150th celebrations we'd like to share your best pictures with our readers over the Christmas holidays, with prizes supplied by Canon. To enter, email: photocomp@nzherald.co.nz

When John Key bought his holiday home on Omaha's Success Court 23 years ago, he probably had no idea how apt the street name would turn out to be.

Up a winding gravel road, in the trees beyond the Coromandel village of Kuaotunu, there's a small field accessible through a swinging wooden gate.

When the two library assistants reflect on the past year they both note an increase in the lending of erotic paperbacks.

Hidden below the water off Coromandel's east coast lies a blue wonderland Darrell Bird considers his own personal picture theatre.

It has been nicknamed "Brad's Pit". And after its redevelopment, yachtsman Brad Butterworth's Beach Parade mansion on Waiheke Island would surely satisfy any Hollywood movie star.

The Three Boys Wheat. As a Belgian-style witbier [white beer], it is based on perhaps one of the oldest style of beer that we still commonly brew in the modern world.

A New Zealand woman who has spent more than two years battling rare and extreme complications from eating toxic fish has made a desperate plea for help.

Here's what some of those property descriptions sometimes really mean.

Experts share their favourite holiday tipples around the barbie