Food Find: Sydney Night Noodle Markets
Evening comes and in the park, under a spring Sydney sky, there are hawker stands. The Sydney Night Noodle Markets have a deceiving title. There are also outdoor bars, noodles, dumplings, Asian salads, ice cream (even durian flavored) and many more delicacies, which make up 50 hawker stalls. If you went last year, this year […]
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The Curators: Ms G’s Executive Chef Dan Hong on Sydney Food and his favourite off-duty eats
On my last trip out to Sydney I checked out Ms G’s, a hip pan-Asian restaurant in Potts Point. It instantly took a spot in our Sydney restaurant guide and also became the subject of my Vietnamese food obsessions. You see, the food at Ms G’s is my comfort food only I strangely found myself […]
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The Curators: Jewellery designer & artist Stephanie Simek on being creative in Portland and her Portland city guide
A little while back I came across a Portland based jewellery designer, Stephanie Simek, who creates the most intriguing little adornments for all of your jewel wearing body parts. I was instantly drawn to her Classealienne Rings – the colourful baubles you see me wearing below which decorate your often-overlooked finger nooks that you can […]
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The Curators: Belinda Humphris of Claire Inc. on Designer Vintage Fashion and the Best of Adelaide
About 5 years ago (to my delight) I stumbled across Adelaide based eBay seller Claire Inc. who had the most exquisite taste in designer vintage clothing. Belinda Humprhis, the founder of Claire Inc. has since grown the business into an online fashion destination for shrewd, well-dressed ladies searching for high-end vintage clothing ”“ admittedly she […]
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The Wolvesmouth Dining Experience – Where Food Meets Art
The phrase “dining experience” is one that you see thrown around in restaurant reviews all the time and we all think we know that it means until we get to have a real dining experience – like the one I was lucky enough to have last night with Wolvesmouth X NYC. Wolvesmouth is an underground […]
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New York City restaurant guide: Fifteen Favourites
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) It’s probably impossible to distil all NYC restaurants down to the best 15, but I’m ambitious so I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. Besides, it’s my blog so I can take it back if I change my mind. These restaurants are the top-15 that really […]
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Crispy pork belly with apple sauce: A worthy mission
I learned something very interesting about the Dutch this weekend: that they don’t tend to appreciate roast pork with a good piece of crackling like many other countries of the world do. You’re probably asking who on earth wouldn’t love a piece of crackling other than vegetarian? Well according to the butcher at the Noordermarkt, […]
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Mum’s abalone & chicken congee is a trip down comfort lane
1 / 1 ( 3 votes ) Congee is to comfort food as chicken soup is to comfort food. It’s a rice porridge that the rice eating nations of the world prepare in different ways and is usually eaten for breakfast or fed to you by your mother when you’re feeling sick. It was a […]
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Foodie detours of the Barossa Valley #1: Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop
A visit to Australia always means a visit to one of its countless wine regions and a visit to any wine region normally calls for visits to numerous local foodie icons. This year, on our Barossa Valley wine-drinking odyssey the first pit stop on the foodie schedule was Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop. This off-the-beaten-track foodie […]
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Vietnamese broken rice: if it’s broke don’t fix it, eat it.
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) During my 3 weeks in Adelaide I had a mild twice-a-week obsession ”“ broken rice and avocado smoothies at a Van Restaurant. This is a Vietnamese restaurant tucked away in a quiet residential street deep in the inner-western suburbs of Adelaide where many Vietnamese settled in the mid-70s. […]
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