I had a craving for pancakes tonight so Xuan and I headed into the Pancake Parlour after dinner. I had the Raspberry and Rhubarb which is raspberry and rhubarb sandwiched between two buttermilk pancakes with mascarpone cream cheese and a dollop of ice cream. It’s kinda sweet and tangy all at once. Very yummy indeed.

I had dinner yesterday at Dong Ba (133 Hopkins St, Footscray), one of my favourite Vietnamese restaurants in Footscray. They specialise in bun bo hue, which a mildly spicy noodle soup dish with thick rice noodles.

Bun bo hue has got to be one of my favourite Vietnamese dishes, probably only second to pho, another popular Vietnamese noodle soup dish.

I know, I’ve been a bit slack with my blog posts this month. It’s like already the end of October and this is just my second post. Anyways, as some of you already know I’m living back in Melbourne now. It’s already been two and a half months and all I’ve pretty much been doing is working on my websites at home. I’ve been meaning to get off my butt and do some proper job hunting but just been a bit slack. I think I’m too used to the laid back lifestyle in Saigon. Haha but yeah, gotta get used to reality.

So anyways, I thought for the last post for the month I’d share a photo of what I made for breakfast the other day. Just some Spam ham sliced into fingers fried with an egg with a bit of white pepper. Cool yeah?

I just had banh canh for dinner and man was it good. It brought back recent memories of eating banh canh at Ben Thanh market in Saigon. Banh canh was one of my favourite things to eat after a big night out on the town when I was living in Vietnam.

For those who don’t know banh canh is a Vietnamese noodle soup dish with thick rice noodles, a thickish broth and normally includes either crab, prawns, fish, pork or a combination. The one I just ate had sliced prawn cakes, fish balls, pork and fried tofu.

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted something about food so I thought hey, why not take a photo of my lunch and write about it? Haha so here you have it. Grilled Vegemite and cheese on toast. For those of you who don’t know what Vegemite is, it’s a dark brown, savoury food spread made from yeast extract and is very popular in Australia and New Zealand. Some people who try it for the first time say it’s disgusting. I guess it’s an acquired taste that once you have a taste for it, it’s like the best thing ever.

So yeah, it’s just sliced bread spread with a decent amount of Vegemite, topped with your choice of cheese (I like to use vintage cheddar for the extra bite) and into the grill. A few minutes later, you’ll have something like what you can see below. Yummo!