Which nut is healthiest?

I think I’ll be doing a FAQ tag on the blog so I can answer some of the questions many of my friends ask me in relation to nutrition. A friend asked me which nut is healthiest? Or the unhealthiest? To answer the question, let’s take a look at what nuts are. nut |nət| noun [...]

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Writing food reviews

Although there are quite a lot of people who like to eat, and quite a lot of people who like to write, not many people like both. Eating is a rather sensual and worldly affair, distinct from the interests of literary folk who are often more concerned with deeper, more profound, metaphysical issues. So outstanding [...]

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Jackfruit Seeds – pine, ash wood, and mahogany

My three month lull in recipe-posting has come to an end, that is, if you can call this a ‘recipe’. It’s probably more of an introduction to an interesting food, than a recipe per se. Come to think of it, that marshmallow post wasn’t a recipe either. Whatever.  If you love the flavour of banana, [...]

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Feast in Hong Kong (Feb 2009) III – Restaurants Part 3

Here is the long-awaited (not that I am implying anybody is waiting for it!) second half of the restaurant series in Hong Kong. This is 2623 words long, over the word limit for my current assignment on privatisation of health services. (seriously, how do they expect me to discuss such a complex issue indepth with [...]

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Feast in Hong Kong (Feb 2009) II – Restaurants : 四點金潮州料理 Four Golds Chiu Chow Cuisine Restaurant

Answer to previous post’s question: compressed dried wood ear 木耳. My dining companion was my aunty, whose husband’s relatives own this restaurant. Like I said before, my mother’s family’s heritage is Chiu Chow, and I don’t know if it’s because it’s ingrained in my genes, or because anybody with a tongue would concur, but Chiu [...]

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Feast in Hong Kong (Feb 2009) I – Restaurants

Can you guess what this is? Answer will be revealed in later post. As per usual, my holiday in Hong Kong involved eating. Lots of it. I was only there for 1.5 weeks, but here are reviews of some of my dining out experiences for February 2009 (13 restaurants: and this excludes snacks! which will [...]

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Sydney Eats

After having indulgently splurged on eating out everyday during my holidays, I made a note of all the restaurants/places I ate at while in Sydney. Australian fare Pancakes on The Rocks The Rocks is a suburb (with a funny name, if you ask me) in inner Sydney that is a historical and tourist hub. I [...]

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Stomach about to explode

Hello all! I am in foodie paradise! Not really, that was just a hyperbole merely intended to attract your attention. Well, Sydney certainly does offer much more culinary choice than Brisbane, but the main reason is not because of the actual restaurants/food offered in a place per se, but more the notion of one’s prerogative [...]

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The Omnivore’s Hundred

Here goes my first meme (one of those “let’s all do this” games). A British blogger, Andrew Wheeler, wrote up a completely subjective list of a hundred foods he believes everyone should try at least once in their life. He admits “the list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food [...]

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Faux, Quasi, Pseudo Cheesecake!

I remember back when I was in Hong Kong (around the new millennium), my mother would buy the Philadelphia (gosh it’s so hard to master the spelling!) Cream Cheese Strawberry Spread, and every time I went to her place I would liberally lather it on my toast and really, get ‘a little taste of heaven‘ [...]

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