Stoj, David, Bien, Huy, Nghia and myself headed up to Mt Buller this morning. We were all excited as it was the first trip of the season. The season only officially started last weekend but there has been very little to no snowfall. Luckily, enough snow fell in last couple of days (together with man [...]

While Xuan and I were at Emerald Lake we stumbled across these little red mushrooms. We were both fascinated by them and ended up spending quite some time taking photographs. They kind of reminded me of the mushroom houses in the 1980s cartoon The Smurfs. The proper name for this species of mushroom or fungus [...]

Xuan and I headed to Emerald Lake Park today which is located in Melbourne’s outer east, about 50 km from the city. The park has two lakes, Lake Treganowan and Nobelious and offers barbecue facilities, paddle boats, walking tracks, fishing and the famous Puffing Billy heritage railway. We spent the afternoon walking on the tracks [...]

I had dinner at Ha Long Bay restaurant tonight. They are located on 82 Victoria Street in Richmond and specialise in Vietnamese cuisine but they also have Chinese dishes as well. Tonight I opted for com tam (cơm tấm) which is Vietnamese for broken rice. It was served with a grilled pork chop, thinly shredded [...]

I had Chinese fried rice noodles (aka chow fun and kway teow) for dinner tonight which are stir fried rice noodles served in a meat sauce with beef, fish, prawns, fried fish cake and Asian vegetables. Usually, thick rice noodles are used for this dish but this time thinner noodles similar to those used in [...]