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 picked up a new Canon IXUS 960 IS digital camera today which I’m absolutely wrapped about. I’ve been without a digital camera for about a month now since damaging my Canon IXY 1000 (aka Canon IXUS 900 Ti) holidaying in Thailand. Luckily the travel insurance covered it allowing me to get my hands on [...]

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 [...]