A table for two

L.O.V.E. Whose recipes do you use or follow the most? Many cooks including myself rely on cookbooks now and again, or go search for recipes online. But when comes to home cooking, you simply can’t go past a good ole mum’s recipe. After cooking two rounds of momofuku bo ssam (you probably so sick of [...]

Chairman Mao is from the Hunan province in China and he loved his red-braised pork (紅燒肉). He even had his personal chef preparing this Hunanese dish to satiate his cravings. This dish has become his legacy and now Sydneysiders are able to try this dish at a Hunanese chinese restaurant in Kensington and undoubtedly the [...]

There are some home cookings from Malaysia that I really miss. But I am also having troubles locating a few essential ingredients even if I bother to cook that authentic dish myself. Pandan leaves for instance, it is hard to come by in the area where I live. But in Sydney, heaps of them! I [...]

Why is it so difficult to find a restaurant that opens after 10pm in Sydney CBD? I find it hard to believe that Sydney is a big city yet there are not many restaurants that open late. Friends from overseas laughed at me when I told them the shopping malls here in Australia closed at [...]

Time flies, it is that time of year again. Chinese supermarkets are already stacking up tins and tins of mooncakes ready for Mid Autumn Festival (中秋节) which falls on 3rd October this year. On that night, the moon will be at its fullest, roundest and brightest! Mid-autumn festival (中秋节) is definitely one of my favorite [...]

I ♥ Ban Mee. Full. Stop. If you are Malaysian or Singaporean, then you probably would know what Ban Mee is. Ban Mee, also sometimes known as Min fun Kueh (麵粉粿), is a simple noodle dish usually for breakfast or lunch, and is made from two basic ingredients – plain flour and water. The noodle is [...]

I tried not to look at my holiday pictures, because it has only been three weeks since I got back from trip and I am already suffering withdrawal symptoms from all the delicious food! This afternoon I switched on the Lightroom, and spent a good hour just looking at the photos, no editing, nothing. Just [...]

A familiar sight of chefs in clinical white uniforms, complete with mouth masks; kneading dumplings away behind the aquarium glass tank. They called themselves the descendants of the “dragon” or phonetically – the “steamer basket”, as that’s what Dragon-i is famous for, steamy Xiao Long Bao. Like Din Tai Fung, Dragon-i is another restaurant chains [...]

Don’t blink. If you blink, another square of crispy suckling pig will be “y-oink”ed and vanished from the plate before you know it. Suckling pig, banquet dinner, family reunion and mum’s birthday – any excuse would do to get myself back to Malaysia for some gluttony action with the family. You know you have a [...]

In the modern, fast-paced (and westernised as a matter of fact) Malaysia, the first thing you will notice is food franchise outlets popping up everywhere! Majority of the chains are US franchises like Macdonald’s, KFC, Kenny Rogers, and Marry Brown (comes with seatings hang from the roof like a swing), Chilis just to name (seriously) [...]

Are you a Michael Jackson fan? Me too! But my Michael Jackson is different from your Michael Jackson, well… at least my Michael Jackson is drinkable and slurp-a-licious. This Michael Jackson drink (I actually learned about the MJ name from Almost Bourdain) also known as Black and White drink which I blogged about a while [...]

The aromatic chicken curry is cooked to perfection, tender chicken pieces with soft golden potato nuggets in a thick curry sauce. The thin layer of chili oil on top is already a promising sign that I am going to love this dish without even having to taste it. “How did you make your Curry Chicken, [...]

One dish after another, a carnivore’s dream comes true. On another hand, the way how I was brought up, always told by my parents to just have a little of each dish to go with a big mouthful of steamed rice. On this occasion, I have to make exceptions. Whenever I dine with the two [...]

Whenever I am in Sydney, I always try to make the most of my day… and night with good food if possible. On this occasion, my initial plan was to drop by at Alice’s in Thornleigh for some Malaysian Chinese food on my way home with Big D. After being informed by our friends who [...]