I recently went to Sydney for a holiday with my sister Juji and her fiance Jay. I’m proud to call Perth home but the eating in Sydney is magnificent! This is the first of my posts about the tri...
With our baskets full of fresh ingredients purchased from Satok Market, we head back to Bumbu Cooking Class to cook our own Malaysian dinner. The class is led by the lovely Richa, who is our Kuching ...
Here’s your chance to win Gourmet Farmer Series 1 and 2 on DVD as seen on SBS.* In Series 1 of Gourmet Farmer, former food critic Matthew Evans has thrown in his city life to live on a small fa...
It’s been a fantastic morning, with a visit to Petanak Wet Market, followed by Swee Kang Ais Kacang and Kuching’s most famous banana fritter stall. But there’s more to come. In the ...
In the last couple of years, gourmet burger bars began popping up all over Perth, and V Burger Bar in East Vic Park was one of them. It’s taken us a while to get there, but I’m glad we fi...
We’re really excited to find another suburban Perth cafe that serves Malaysian hawker-style food for brunch, including specialty dishes that are hard to find locally. On Sunday morning, we visi...
After visiting Kuching’s famous ABC haven, it’s time to visit Kuching’s most famous pisang goreng (fried banana) stall. We are told this family-run pisang goreng stall has been arou...
After visiting Petanak Wet Market, it’s time to cool down with some ABC, which stands for air batu campur (“mixed ice” in Malay). But there are savoury delights to enjoy too. ABC We...
Whenever we have a family get-together, I hope my mum will cook up a batch of her hokkien mee. To my delight, more often than not, she walks in with a big pot of noodles. My mum’s Hokkien mee I...
I’m pretty chuffed to share this news with you. One of the photographs from my blog post about the election day sausage sizzle and an audio recording of me reading the post are featured in an e...
On our second morning in Kuching, we visit Petanak Market, a wet market with stallholders and clientele that are mostly Chinese. As a child in Malaysia, I used to go with my mum to markets early in t...
After a brief rest and shower, I take this photograph from the window near the lifts near my room on the 16th floor. Our group meets in the hotel lobby and then we’re off on a walk along the Ku...
Fairy Cave After our introduction to Kuching at the Da-Light Food Court, we take a 45-minute drive to the outskirts of Bau, a former gold mining town, to Fairy Cave (Gua Kapor) and Wind Cave (Gua Ang...
Lucky to be here This is the view from my room in the Hotel Pullman Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia. I can hardly believe that I’m here. It’s my first time in Sarawak. View of Kuching from my hote...
A day off with my younger sister Juji. What do we do? Eat, of course! It’s been a while since we’ve been to Jaws Kaiten Sushi on the Hay Street Mall in Perth. We’re both ardent fans...
A simple but really good sandwich Jac enjoyed for lunch recently: leg ham, tomato, white onion, tasty cheese, salt and pepper, on lightly buttered fresh New Norcia sourdough bread. Ham, cheese, tomat...
On a Thursday evening after work, I attend a Cupcake Teaser Workshop run by Cake Love – Couture Cakes. The class is an introduction to cupcake decorating using fondant and is held in the back r...
“I’m hungry,” my niece Ruby whispers, as she plays with her cutlery. “So am I,” I whisper back. She giggles and we grin at each other. Ruby, waiting for food It’s ...
Qantas Frequent Flyer has launched epiQure, its new food and wine online community. I’m thrilled to attend a five-course degustation lunch with Jac at Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth to celebrate the...
The Mondo Markets are on every Saturday in spring, from 8am to 12.30pm on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Beaufort Street in Inglewood, next to Mondo Butcher. Mondo Markets entrance It’s a small...
I recently attended a special lunch with the Australian Mushroom Growers Association. The event was a celebration of the year’s achievements and 50 years of the mushroom industry and the launch...
I wrote about the mushroom dishes I ate at Clarke’s of North Beach back in July as part of Mushroom Mania. Here’s the meal in its entirety. The evening’s amuse bouche was cream of c...
Last week, I attended a cheese and wine masterclass featuring some of Blue Cow Cheese Company’s “Just Landed” range of imported European traditional, artisanal and handmade cheeses....
Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010). T...
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me in the Malaysia Kitchen Blogger Summit and helped spread the word throughout August. Which was your favourite post or dish? The results are out and it&#...
We hosted a family lunch recently at our home to celebrate Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday. Jac loves to cook for company and had a great time planning and preparing the meal. I helped her...
Noodle soup with BBQ pork and roast pork, duck and chicken. This is what food porn is all about.
I reckon Girrawheens got one of Perths hidden gems right here among the concrete and shopping trolleys. Traditional homestyle Malay dishes, including nasi lemak, nasi biryani, satay and homemade kuih.
A couple of weekends ago, Jac and I went to a quiz night with my siblings and their partners. It was a fundraiser for Jac’s hockey club. We all brought food, of course. Jac made her savoury egg...
Hainanese chicken rice (AU$8.00) Bull Creek Hawker is located at the busy shopping village on Parry Avenue in Bull Creek. We pulled into the rather congested centre car park just before 12 noon. We w...
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