Diary of a home cook and avid food lover
I must say, I never really had a thing for Matcha until I travelled to Japana couple of years ago. It was there that I had my very first matcha soft serve, and from then on that I developed a profound love for anything and everything green and tea-flavoured.Matcha is the finely-ground leaf of the…
Ramen lovers rejoice. Manpuku, Kingsford’s stalwart ramen-ya, has expanded to open a second restaurant in Chatswood. The new restaurant has a similar menu to the original, with a slightly more upmarket interior and atmosphere. Check out my post for Sydney food blog 2 Hungry Guys here, during which I had the pleasure of learning more about Manpuku’s top…
With Sydney’s recent chilly cold snap this week and a calendar which seems to be flipping ever so rapidly towards the end of the year (What? Only four months until Christmas?! WHAT?!), I’ve been dreaming ever so blissfully of warmer weather and all the glorious summer fruits and vegetables that will come into season. To…
Japanese food is one of my favourite cuisines. It’s fresh, tasty and healthy; full of pure, delicate but sophisticated flavours. When you integrate it into Sydney’s booming café culture, you get what I would consider to be the holy grail of culinary creation. Tucked away in the suburbia of Redfern, not too far away from…
The gastonomic saying goes that there’s always a second stomach for dessert. Whether you’ve just enjoyed a long, buffet lunch, a fast, casual meal or luxurious dining affair, the sweet appeal of a creamy, cool gelato or the calls of a square of decadent dark chocolate are hard to ignore, even when you’re stomach seems…
Among the many, many Korean BBQ restaurants in Strathfield, maintaining its presence on a relatively small, narrow corner shopfront, lies The Mandoo. It’s a handmade dumpling and noodle restaurant, with cute dumpling characters dancing on the front windows above a cluster of Korean and English menu items. From one window you can glimpse trays and…
It amazes me how interior designers are able to integrate alluring spaces into the most unsuspecting areas. Spice Temple’s inconspicuous entrance – a hologram-like doorway tucked into a crevice to the side of Rockpool’s grand façade on Hunter Street – is a case in point. Walk down the yellow-tinted stairwell to basement level, where you’ll…
Sometimes you find yourself craving cake, but don’t feel like eating something that leaves you with a lingering sugar high. You have an urging desire for that delicate, soft crumb, to consume a scrumptious piece of baked goodness, just not of the sweet variety. Pumpkin is a very versatile ingredient, with a high sugar content…
It’s easy to forget about the alluring magnificence and splendour of Sydney Harbour when you actually live in Sydney. Iconic locations like Circular Quay and The Rocks are often overlooked for other unique, culture-rich suburbs considered to be more hip and less crowd-infested. But a visit to the harbour itself presents something of a homely…
Sometimes all one could yearn for in life is a giant platter of sashimi, decorated with tendrils of cucumber and frolics of wafer-thin carrot. Oh, and a delicately carved carrot butterfly to top it all off. I’m thrilled to have been asked to contribute to 2 Hungry Guys, a delicious Sydney food blog with such…
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