Publishing, Tour & Community Partners
The Lazy Sunday Club is a food and travel community for people who love to cook, dine out and travel with curiosity. It’s a highly engaged platform where contributors and members share stories, recipes and practical inspiration. Elsewhere & Beyond is a regular collaborator, where Leanne writes travel stories, recipes and books. It’s a natural partnership built on shared values: depth over spectacle, local knowledge, and travel shaped by food, place and people. From time to time, the community gains access to exclusive offers related to our trips, and we are currently collaborating with the Lazy Sunday Club and Hello World Ponsonby on Vietnam food tours.
Yunnan is China’s Wild Card
When I say “I’m going to Yunnan”, even super well-travelled people look quizzical. “Where’s that?” they ask, and fair enough too. After all, when people think of China their minds instantly click to the Greatest Sino Hits… adorable pandas, the Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, The Bund, the Summer Palace, Forbidden City and maybe even… READ MORE
Free Noodle Recipe PDF
This collection brings together twelve of our favourite noodle recipes... the ones we keep coming back to, slurping on, tweaking slightly, then making all over again. Some are brothy, some are spicy, some are cold, and others are basically excuses to eat sesame oil and vinegar with reckless abandon. You’ll find comfort food classics (hi, tomato and egg), next-level leftovers (looking at you, BBQ duck noodle soup), and fresh new obsessions like our chewy, hand-cut knife noodles – a bit of a project, but a fun one. However you noodle – hot, cold, fried, soupy – there’s something here to tangle your chopsticks around. DOWNLOAD HERE.
Fish and tomato curry
When you crave a curry, nothing else will do. But, you know. Making a ‘proper’ curry, whether Indian or South East Asian, involves loads of ingredients and making a paste from scratch. (Except a Japanese curry, where you just throw a few of those curry roux thingos at your dish, then watch them melt and release palm oil, flour, sugar, salt, cornstarch, caramel, colour, monosodium glutamate, defatted soybean, cheese seasoning, autolysed yeast extract……) GET THE RECIPE
Paperback: 194 pages, 13cm x 18.5 cm | Publisher: Red Pork Press | Publication date: April 2020
“These travel guides pack a punch” — National Geographic Traveller
Written by Leanne Kitchen for Red Pork Press, Bangkok In 12 Dishes is structured around iconic dishes you should try at least once in your life. Miang, ob woon sen, hoy tod, mango sticky rice and khao kha moo, for starters. But your food odyssey doesn’t stop with these essential 12 eats. This guide dives into Bangkok’s myriad desserts and curries, guides you to the city’s best food markets, IDs sensational tropical fruits, takes an overnighter to Ayutthaya, offers food survival hacks for Chatuchak Market, lists excellent bars and introduces you to the Chao Phraya river.
Ready for a foodie adventure? Book your spot for a Vietnam Food discovery tour from Ho Chi Minh city to Hanoi hosted by food expert Leanne Kitchen from 15-27 October 2026 – every bite tells a story!
This is an exclusive tour by Helloworld Ponsonby. For more details contact us on (+64) 09 267 6758 or email on ponsonby@travel.helloworld.co.nz SEE ITINERARY
Hangzhou
For the China-wary, Hangzhou, a mere 45-minute fast train ride from Shanghai, is the perfect place to go – it’s clean, spacious, and within cooee of pretty green spaces. It’s been a tourist attraction since the Tang dynasty (618–907), although arguably, with a population now of over 9 million, it’s not quite as peaceful as it was in Marco Polo’s day. Nestled on the gorgeous West Lake (西湖) and surrounded by bucolic hills, lush forests, and tea plantations, Hangzhou really is dreamy… READ MORE
Smart Bites + Cool Drinks
Easy Platters For Laid-Back Feasts
Paperback: 136 pages, 165mm x 220mm | Publisher: Lazy Sunday Club | Publication date: May 2025 | Recipes: 70+ food & cocktail recipes
Whether you're having a few mates over for afternoon drinks, hosting a full-on celebration, or firing up the BBQ for an easy Saturday night with the fam, this book of easy recipes – from the Lazy Sunday Club – has your back.
Think clever, no-fuss platter food designed for stress-free entertaining – there’s juicy, fluffy Chinese duck bao, the pimped-up hummus of your wildest dreams, Med-inspired dip platters, cute little tuna onigiri, and so much more. BUY THE BOOK
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