On Friday night I had dinner with a few friends at Los Latinos (128 Mitchell St, Maidstone), a little Latin American restaurant in Melbourne’s west. I don’t usually eat a lot of Latin American food apart from the odd taco or burrito now and then so I didn’t go in with any expectations. When the entrées came out and [...]

I was craving bo kho last Friday so I decided to make it for dinner. For those who don’t know, bo kho is a Vietnamese beef stew that is primary made with beef (usually chuck or gravy beef) and carrots. I used beef tripe and radish as well. The dish is typically served with crusty [...]

The other week Xuan and I decided to try the bun bo hue (Vietnamese spicy beef noodle soup) at a relatively new Vietnamese restaurant in Springvale called Huong Giang (2 Windsor Ave, Springvale). We both weren’t excepting all that much from the place and so were pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually very [...]

While shopping for ingredients to make teriyaki chicken in Sainsbury’s yesterday I came past some duck breast and decided to try using duck instead. I found a teriyaki chicken recipe online and just substituted chicken for duck. I also made a couple of other minor substitutions to the recipe since I didn’t have all the [...]

I was at Heathrow Airport a couple of weeks ago waiting for my flight to Melbourne via Singapore. It was early in the morning and as I hadn’t had breakfast I was looking for a place to grab a bite in the food court area of Terminal 3. It was quite busy and I didn’t [...]