Chinese

Chinese Five Spice Roast Duck

July 26, 2010

Masterchef Australia season 2 is finally over, and I have to congratulate Adam Liaw for making this far and claimed the title. Time flies, I still remember my Masterchef Audition in September last year and what a coincidence to be in the same group as Adam and Alvin, and both Malaysians. Well, I shouldn’t be [...]

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Marigold Restaurant Yum Cha – Haymarket Chinatown, Sydney CBD

May 27, 2010

“Ewww….!” She squeals. But we are not taking ‘no’ for an answer and keep prodding, “Eat it! Eat it!” She squeals some more and simply won’t barge. Betty eventually takes her drink away and says, “If you are not going to eat it, you won’t get your Coke!” And it worked. Karen slowly picks up [...]

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My Masterchef audition days with Egg Floss Butter Prawns

April 19, 2010

Are you excited about the brand new season of Australian Masterchef on TV tonight? I am, despite my journey to become a Masterchef has ended rather fairly early in the audition phase, it is still one of my favourite show on TV that I am really looking forward to. Yes you heard me right, my [...]

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Two long lunches at Melbourne Food & Wine Festival – World’s Longest Lunch and Viet Lane Sunday Lunch

March 16, 2010

“Melbourne is the Lady, Sydney is the …” …jests by one of the guests during a “Melbourne vs Sydney” conversation at the world’s longest lunch. Helen (GrabYourFork) and I, two Sydneysiders are already stirring the pot once touched down in Melbourne. We both are very fortunate to be invited by Tourism Victoria to spend a [...]

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New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant – Chatswood Chase, Chatswood, NSW

February 24, 2010

This is a story about a Shanghai Girl and a Malaysian Boy. Many moons ago, Malaysian Boy met Shanghai Girl through Flickr. It was a love at first sight connection that has bound them together ever since. But one day, Malaysian Boy made a tough decision by leaving things behind, and going anywhere around the [...]

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Pineapple Tarts for Chinese New Year – 凤梨酥/黄梨酥

February 1, 2010

The Chinese New Year is only two weeks away and I’ve been a very busy man slaving over hot stove (or oven) lately. Last year we had friends coming up to the Central Coast and we had so much fun celebrating the new year with a 9-courses Chinese dinner banquet. And I am doing it [...]

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Steamed Pork Mince with Salted Duck Egg – 咸蛋蒸猪肉

January 14, 2010

I slowly discover that I have complicated things, especially in cooking. Looking back at my recipe archives, most of the recipes involved a lot of ingredients and a million steps to follow, which usually half a day to prepare one dish. What happen to the simple quick toss on the wok? What’s wrong with the [...]

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Chairman Mao Restaurant – Kensington, Sydney, NSW

November 30, 2009

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 [...]

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Stir Fried Belacan Winged Beans (four-angled beans)

November 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Dragon-i (籠的傳人) : 1 Utama Mall, PJ Malaysia

August 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Dinner banquet @ HillCity Restaurant – Ipoh, Malaysia

August 19, 2009

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 [...]

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Old Town White Coffee Cafe – Ipoh, Malaysia

August 14, 2009

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) [...]

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Funny Mountain – Ipoh, Malaysia

August 8, 2009

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 [...]

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LNC Dessert House – Sussex Street, Sydney

July 10, 2009

It is ChocolateSuze‘s craziest birthday do with a truck load of foodbloggers shoved into a tiny room at Wagaya. The whole night was rather a blur and chaotic – food with no names are shared, well at least the quick hands got some, the slow hands got none. Hence some of the hungry hungry hippos [...]

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