Posted in Asian, Deep-Fried Food, Japanese, Oysters, Seafood, tagged Japanese, kaki fry, oyster fry, Oysters, panko, tonkatsu sauce on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I LOVE oysters. This is surprising because I hated them as a kid and when I tried my first raw oyster in the mid-90s (at the London Beer Show) , I got violently ill. Instead of putting me off of oysters for life, I fell in love with them and even did an in-depth study [...]
Posted in Asian, Food Quiz, Miscellaneous/Quirky, tagged asian grocery, pickled turmeric, thai, ziganid fish on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Asian, Beef, tagged asparagus, Beef, marinade, teriyaki on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every spring when I was a teenager, I remember watching Good Morning America and without fail, there was a cooking segment that introduced the asparagus season and whenever I saw the episode featuring asparagus, I knew that spring had officially arrived (since we didn’t have seasons in the tropics). I think that that morning [...]
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