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Chinese New Year 2012 – family lunch

30 January 2012
Roasted pork belly, Chinese New Year 2012

Happy New Year! Kong Hei Fatt Choy!
We get together for our family reunion lunch at my parents’ home on Chinese New Year eve.
We begin the meal with yee sang, a raw fish salad (in Chinese, “yee” means fish, “sang” means raw). Yee sang is eaten by many Chinese Malaysian families at new year as ...

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Cabramatta, Sydney

18 January 2012
Cabramatta

For the food lover, photographer and blogger, the South Western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta is a treasure trove of interesting sights, delicious tastes and enticing smells, with authentic Vietnamese restaurants, coffee shops and groceries, takeaway snacks and sweets.

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Izakaya Fujiyama, Surry Hills

13 January 2012
Izakaya Fujiyama, Surry Hills, Sydney

If you’re up for a bit of adventurous eating, don’t miss the tuna jaw at Izakaya Fujiyama. As you forage around the bones, fin and cartilage you’ll find lots of tasty surprises. It’s eating that feels like mining… in craggy prehistoric caverns.

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Chat Thai Thaitown, Haymarket, Sydney

14 December 2011
Green chicken curry, Chat Thai Thaitown, Haymarket, Sydney

We’ve been warned about the legendary dinner queue at Chat Thai. A couple of Sydney locals even suggest turning up for dinner well after 10pm.
For me, two things come to mind.
First, in Perth at 10pm, many kitchens are closed, if not the restaurants. I remember on my graduation night on a Wednesday, how ...

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Sarawak cooking demonstration at Pullman Kuching

9 December 2011
Making chicken cooked in bamboo, Pullman Kuching

After a great morning featuring orangutans, kolo mee and bird’s nest soup, we return to our hotel, the Pullman Kuching, for a cooking demonstration with Executive Chef Joshua Er.
We take our seats and sip on ice-cold orange juice. Chef Joshua will show us how to cook three dishes and tell us all about the ...

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Cafe Ish, Surry Hills, Sydney

2 December 2011
Kara age Crab Omelette (AU$24), Cafe Ish, Surry Hills

Cafe by day, izakaya by night, Cafe Ish has a unique menu featuring dishes that blend Japanese flavours with Australian native ingredients. You won’t find teriyaki chicken bento boxes here, and the sign above the door proclaims “No sushi!” – it’s creative, tasty food at the corner cafe I wish was in my neighbourhood.
When I ...

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Bumbu Cooking Class, Kuching

17 November 2011
Toasting coconut at Bumbu Cooking Class, Kuching

With our baskets full of fresh ingredients purchased from Satok Market, we head back to Bumbu Cooking Class to cook our own Malaysian dinner. The class is led by the lovely Richa, who is our Kuching guide Joseph’s sister. Her assistant Nora also helps throughout the class.

Richa, one of our cooking instructors

Richa welcomes us ...

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V Burger Bar, East Victoria Park

2 November 2011
HaVaiian chicken burger, V Burger Bar, East Victoria Park

In the last couple of years, gourmet burger bars began popping up all over Perth, and V Burger Bar in East Vic Park was one of them. It’s taken us a while to get there, but I’m glad we finally have.
There’s a nice feel about V Burger Bar. Besides the sizzle and aroma of a ...

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Clarke’s of North Beach

9 September 2011
Saute royal blue potato and mushroom gnocchi with pancetta, Clarke's of North Beach

I wrote about the mushroom dishes I ate at Clarke’s of North Beach back in July as part of Mushroom Mania. Here’s the meal in its entirety.
The evening’s amuse bouche was cream of cauliflower soup with truffle (AU$6), served in cute little jars with teaspoons to eat it with. We flipped the lids ...

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New York Times spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken

5 September 2011
New York Times fried chicken

Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010).
The recipe begins:
Ready for a tip that will change your life? You don’t need to deep-fry chicken: you can shallow-fry it ...

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