I had dinner tonight at Hao Phong, a restaurant specialising in Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine located at 136 Hopkins Street in Footscray. I ordered the sugarcane prawn (bún chạo tôm) which is a Vietnamese dish of grilled prawn paste wrapped around sugarcane with rice vermicelli. It was served with bean sprouts, shredded carrot and lettuce, [...]

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 [...]

I had a craving for pho so for dinner Xuan and I went to Hung Vuong Saigon (133 Hopkins St, Footscray) which is a Vietnamese restaurant that specialises in pho. For those who don’t know pho is a famous Vietnamese rice noodle soup dish which is usually served with thinly sliced beef and garnished with [...]

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.