A table for two

This is my last video log of my food trail in South East Asia last year. It is only a very short video filmed in Laos, where I visited Vientiane and Luang Prabang. I didn’t stay long enough to have enough videos to make a proper log, not to mention it was also my last [...]

WLG ——————————-> SYD A three hours flight across the pond, the quaint Wellington city in New Zealand will be landing in the big smoke of Sydney some time in September. The New Zealanders are going to perform in group, but not with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet, chanting over a Haka traditional dance [...]

Hunger for the WOAP. Please forgive my ignorance, I have to admit that I actually never heard of them but on the other hand, John was rather excited to check out Logan Brown when we found out that it is one of the restaurants we are going to visit during our trip to New Zealand [...]

I haven’t post a video log for a long time, and last night I finally managed to dig out some old travel footage I shot during my vacation in Cambodia and compiled into this little video. Gosh, I almost forgot how much I love editing video. Food photography is always my favourite, but have to [...]

Wellington on a Plate. Let’s devour to our hearts’ content. I seldom see a whole snapper being served at a dinner event, unless it is a traditional Chinese dinner banquet. So when the waitress brings out a whole roasted Northland snapper, proudly resting on a plate and surrounded by Cloudy Bay clams, I simply can’t [...]

A Dinosaur’s Osso Bucco? Check out this monster! The size of it is way beyond belief! Even my dining companion volunteers to hold my iPhone next to it as a comparison while I take a photo of this ginormous osso bucco placed right in front of me. I found this utterly impressive humongous prehistoric piece [...]

Day 3. Cloudy with a chance of chicken rice balls. After two days of non-stopping eating within a close distance between Kuala Lumpur, Klang and Petaling Jaya, it’s time to leave Selangor state and venture out to look for regional food in other cities. We hop back into the car and set off for a [...]

[Warning: Contains graphic image of a cow fetus in this post] If you were asking me five years ago to attend a cooking class while on holiday, I probably would have hissed at you and think you are absolutely wasting time and money when you can spend the time go out and do more sightseeing [...]

A holy place caught in time warp. Is it just me or do you think this year has gone by really really fast? It only struck me the other day that we already spent half the year of 2010, but I still feel like I hardly achieve anything this year! I swear my holiday in [...]

“How do you spell Carluccio?” I ask Helen. “Aiyahhh Billyyyyy…. C.. A.. R.. L.. U..” she bemoans. Sorry Jedi Helen, I can only defend myself and my ignorance that English is still my second language let alone spelling an Italian name. Besides, I’m one of those people that never good with names especially during first [...]

This little piggy went to market… …and this little piggy (me) didn’t feel like going home at all! Every city has markets, but Adelaide has the largest one and not just in Australia, but the largest fresh produce market in the Southern Hemisphere. Fact. Didn’t you know? Me neither, and I only found out during [...]

Malaysia, the country where I was born. Despite being an Australian for over 3 years now, Malaysia is still where my root is, Ipoh is still my home town, and my whole family still lives there. Sadly I don’t go back to visit my family as often as I should, but if I do ever [...]

ATFT had his first Tasting Australia in Adelaide. Tasting Australia is where food and wine media and celebrity chefs from across Australia and around the world to come out and play. It is an eight day celebration of food and wine in the city of churches, Adelaide and South Australia. This year there was over [...]

Since I have some spare time during this Easter long weekend, I thought I better catch up on my long overdue posts about my last trip in South East Asia which covered Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and the last stop, Laos. My friend, five-fiddy-Phon, an Australian-born-Laotian who visited his relatives in Laos a few years back [...]