A table for two

Where have all the cowboys gone? To Beef Week of course! Rockhampton is well known as the Beef Capital of Australia and its population has swelled and doubled during the week of Beef Australian 2012 in May. A few of the MasterChef peeps including myself were invited by Coles to run a few cooking demonstrations [...]

Houston… we have a taco. Despite its funky internet website that many call it a pain in the backside, it doesn’t stop this 2-year-old Mexican restaurant doing a roaring trade up here on the Central Coast in NSW. Locals and Sydneysiders are lining up on most weeknights and weekends, resulting a Mexican wave along the [...]

Xin Chào Vietnam! No matter where you go, there is always a smile with sparkling pearly-white teeth beaming at you, follows by a friendly greeting of “Xin Chao!” in shy manners – small little gesture like this reminds me of the reasons why I fell in love with this country the first place when I [...]

  The sweetest place on earth. The one thing I love about South Australia is the produce. Everyone seems to know what food they are eating, where the food are coming from and sometimes even being the producers themselves. Tasting Australia is exactly what is all about, a biennial event that brings together chefs, food [...]

Fine wine and dine in Hunter Valley is nothing new, restaurants come and go, but one new restaurant opened last year is worth visiting. After four years as executive chef for Peppers Hunter Valley group, Emerson Rodriguez finally took the plunge and opened his own restaurant with his wife, Samantha, under his own name Emerson’s [...]

This is the man who introduced me to Peruvian food back in 2009. It was the first time that I tasted many exotic ingredients that I have never had before and also never thought I would, including quinoa, Andean purple corn, chia seeds, beef heart and of course, alpaca meat. He had travelled around the [...]

Flying Roti, Hidden Talent. Today I thought I will blog about something different, let’s see… how about Malaysian restaurant? If Malaysian restaurants keep popping up in Sydney at this rate, I think I will need to have a dedicated Malaysian restaurant post every Friday. Not that this is a bad thing or anything, I do [...]

Chin chin cher-ee. Melbourne – a city full of dark magic! People like to dress in black and drink lots of potion called coffee; with bus that looks like train that look like bus that runs on wires; scribbles on walls they called it art; men wearing jerseys with no sleeves with a ball they [...]

I saw a little note attached to the old wooden window at one of the heritage houses in the old part of Kuala Lumpur with the quote like this: Demolishing Jalan Sultan; Destroying Petaling Street; Disappearing Chinatown. Sadly, that is what going to happen to Kuala Lumpur some time this year. Shophouses and heritage sites are [...]

The Mount View from our table at the restaurant. Picture speaks a thousand words, and you wonder where this wine region got its name from. Mount View is only 20 minutes south of Pokolbin, it is a wine region in Hunter Valley that is less frequented by visitors, including myself. This is actually my first [...]

My home town, Ipoh, is in Sydney right now. Well, kind of. Ipoh, you may or may not heard of, it is the place where I was born, the city I grew up in, and it is my home town. I am Ipoh mali (slang in Malay means I came from Ipoh) and damn proud [...]

Awesome cafes in Perth continues… This time, under local Perth-ians’ recommendations, Pete and I decide to skip the buffet breakfast in the hotel and walk all the way to East Perth for TOAST, and of course we found this cute cafe serves more than just that. But first, we have to locate the cafe. For [...]

  The hills are alive. With the sound of swirling wine that is. A full weekend itinerary was given to me by Hunter Valley Tourism, soon enough The Pom and I have organised a house-sitter to look after our pets, bags are packed, bicycles are loaded onto the car and we are setting off to [...]

When there are foodbloggers argue which restaurants has the best roti, rendang and CKT, you know Sydney has been taken over by Malaysian restaurants. It is like measles, they just pop up everywhere! This sudden trend only remind me of an old Malay proverbs, “hangat-hangat tahi ayam“, and without too literally translate it, I worry [...]