I’ve decided to move the Food Quiz from its own page to a regular post below: I love food and regardless of whether I have studied it extensively or not, there is no way that I have an encyclopaedia of knowledge…therefore, I have set up this page so that I can be enlightened by people [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Food Quiz #1 and #2
Posted in Asian, Food Quiz, Miscellaneous/Quirky, tagged Asian Grocery, pickled turmeric, thai, ziganid fish on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Asian-Style Desserts
Posted in Asian, Cakes, Pastry, Travel, tagged 85 C, Asian Pastries, Calpis, Mochi, sydney on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love being in Sydney’s Chinatown area because it is almost like being in Asia – after all, Australia is part of Australasia. I get to fulfill all my Asian cravings whenever I visit and this time, I discovered a bakery that specialises in Asian-style cakes. It is on George St. right in the thick [...]
Sydney Layover Part 2
Posted in Miscellaneous/Quirky, Travel, tagged sydney on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned in the last post about how I forgot that very big cities have interesting and colourful people right? (You’d think I grew up in the country or something but I didn’t…just living in a smaller city makes you forget these city things). Here are just a few people that I found worth my [...]
Sydney Layover
Posted in Asian, Japanese, Restaurant, tagged haymarket, kura, sushi, sydney on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Practically every time I want to leave Australia to go back to the US, I have to stopover in Sydney for a few hours. Sometimes I schedule my flights so that I have a whole day to hang out in Sydney before I board my (usually) evening flight home. This time, I decided not to [...]
Breaking News: Le Cordon Bleu Suicide Attempt
Posted in Culinary School, News Headlines, tagged Culinary School, Le Cordon Bleu, London on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just got a news headline from Decanter.com that surprised me: “Student at Le Cordon Bleu threatens suicide” and then saw it also on the Mail online as well. What?! They reported that a 28 yr. old French-Algerian man who spent his entire savings on the course, had failed an exam and demanded to retake [...]
