26
Jul
How to Cook a Wagyu Steak at Home
My mother is an absolute steak nut. She’s crazy about eating steak that if you were to just give her 1/2 kg piece of perfectly cooked steak and nothing else for dinner, she’d be happy. So when we went to Japan, what better gift to bring back than a couple of pieces of authentic wagyu...
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16
Jul
Melbourne Food Review: Syracuse, Bank Place, CBD
Syracuse is one of those restaurants I have been wanting to visit for a while. One Friday night saw us landed there for dinner on one of our date nights (don’t know why we need date nights, seriously). Syracuse situates itself on the Bank Place cafe and restaurant strip on a lovely building. The dinging...
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12
Jul
Prawns and Glass Noodles in Claypot (Goong Ob Woonsen)
Cookbook Challenge Week 33 Book: Thai Street Food by David Thompson Theme: Seafood Recipe: Prawns with Glass Noodles This is one of those well known Chinese-Thai seafood dishes that simply aren’t heard of here in Melbourne. Since it’s really simple to make (and I want to show off my newly purchased claypot) I thought I...
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21
Jun
The Lovely Noodles I Ate in Thailand
This is a bit of a left over of ‘What I Ate in Thailand‘ series. We Thais love our noodles. Although we never really invented any of our own noodle dishes, we have managed to bastardise a few. And they are really genuinely good. One of the ones that Thais will proudly claim as their...
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16
May
Melbourne Food Review: Thanh Tam, Victoria St., Richmond
Not the most dignified picture to start off a blog post but really, this isn’t a classy blog, is it? That is one of our entree, the barbecued quail ($7), which despite its undignified posture was easily one of the tastiest quails I have ever had (and I have had the famous Rumi quail). (Bo...
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