sweet opera

hot chips


poached egg, crispy pancetta and brussel sprouts.

on a recent visit to sydney, i decided to try my luck for a table at cafe sopra so i could dig into the best hot chips ever (if anyone knows of a place that can challenge this, please share)....and the other dish certainly got me back into brussel sprouts again.

chuck it in

i once went out with this guy who use to put all sorts of leftovers in a roll. i found it so disgusting and i'm pretty sure that's why we broke up. 2 years later i decided to try it. here we have a range of leftover items thrown into a roll including baked coral trout, chickpeas, gai lan, dried chilli and aioli. i know my his leftovers weren't as good as mine.

back to school

my friend has stopped taking me to cooking schools. i think it's because i embarrassed her when i told the head chef at the mangrove mountain ashram his curry needed more salt. it's probably the best cooking school i've been to but really, it did need more salt.


ratatouille lamb with roast capsicum at academy sofitel

high tea, sweeteeeeee....

you can't go to vietnam without a stopover in hong kong. and you can't go to hong kong without sampling the renowned high tea at the peninsula hotel.

vietnum-num

i think i could have went head to head with homer simpson in an eating competition in vietnam. as you can see, not many dishes made it on the camera. i was too quick to eat.

and yes, restaurant bobby chinn is good.


vietnamese spring rolls


cumquat tea with fresh fruit


salt, chilli & lime dipping sauce


steamed pipies with chilli


my friend sarita, and i have an addiction to rice paper rolls. we once spent a whole sunday stuffing them with crayfish, rice noodles, lettuce, shallots, & cucumber....and eating them. if only we could have had them straight off these mats.....


cumquat honey.
you could actually taste the cumquat in the honey!!