A table for two

TABLEISM – The art of mixing good food, friends and don’t forget… the music. [competition is now closed.] I have a basic rule when hosting dinner party, TV is strictly OFF. I have learned from past experiences, TV always killed conversation at the dining table. “But what I want to watch the news?” NO! “I [...]

  When in Ipoh, eat, eat, eat! I have lived by that motto for nineteen years, and I still do whenever I go back to Ipoh, that’s my hometown where I was born and grew up in Malaysia. Ipoh (ee-poh) is approximately 200km north of Kuala Lumpur, not much of a tourist destination I must [...]

Sydney Food Bloggers ROCK! They truly are a bunch of talented people. Among all the different kind of genres in the blogging world, I believe Sydney food bloggers are one of the most active, friendly, supportive, tight-knit community around, especially those who came out to join us at our inaugural Sydney Food Blogger ‘Mad Hatter’ [...]

I have had a rather quiet but productive weekend simply because the internet was down since last Friday. I am still amazed how much stuff I’ve done around the house without the distractions from internet. A quick recap – I’ve done my taxes for the business (hate doing it!); I’ve steamed a medium size snapper [...]

As promised, here is a video showing glimpses of Vietnam. Hard to fit 8 days in Vietnam into a 4 minutes video, and I also keep forgetting to take movies during the vacation, so this is the best I can do. Hope you enjoy it. Tweet

“A table for one,” I said. (You heard me right) The day that A Table For Two dine alone is finally happening sooner than I anticipated. Disaster! However, the opportunity of getting hold of a table at Ichi-ban Boshi makes eating by myself perhaps is not such a bad thing after all. This ramen noodle [...]

“The nutrionists say that the breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. It helps to perk us up and gets us on our way.” Believe it or not, that’s part of the lyrics! It’s rather catchy… No mo’ bacon… no mo’ sausage… no mo’ gri-i-i-ts… no more scrambled eggs…. Let’s sing [...]

It is TGIF PLF – I called it the Pub Lunch Friday! The battered food, the amber liquid, and the extra hour long lunch relaxing in the beer courtyard soaking up the sun, what not to love about PLF?! Not to mention, the local hotel is only few paces down the hill from our place, [...]

The Taste of Sydney is finally here! After all the successful Taste Festivals in London, Dublin, Dubai, Cape Town and Melbourne, Sydneysiders finally get to have their first “Taste” in March, 2009. Over four days, Centennial Park will turn into a giant buffet table, where a number of Sydney’s finest restaurants will offer their signature [...]

Pssst… just in case you haven’t noticed, I am totally in the Chinese New Year vibe right now. I made cookies, and more cookies, ready for the new year this weekend. Coincidentally, Chinese New Year this year also falls on the same day as Australia Day! Hence, for the double celebrations, a group of friends [...]

It’s Mr P’s Birthday and I suggested to go somewhere nice for dinner to celebrate. He mentioned a decent restaurant around our area in Central Coast where they offering a 5 course degustation menu for $100 pp. I am like, “Are you kidding me?” I scorned in disbelief when I know I can pay a [...]

“Cheers!”- a contagious chant and the clinking sound of wine glasses are still ringing in my ears from this year Terrigal Food and Wine Fair. This event also marked a year since I moved up to Central Coast. We were informed by the real estate agent about this event last year while inspecting the new [...]

I saw this on LeftOverQueen‘s blog, and she saw it on Elly’s Blog, and Elly saw it on Andrew’s VGT blog, and we all think that as a foodie who loves food, we all should try everything at least once. Andrew made up a list of 100 things, some common, some exotic, some I need [...]