✦ Yan is a restaurant in the burbs that I’ve been wanting to go for a long long time✦ Located under an apartment block it doesn’t get a lot of throughfare but the place is always busy because people know the food here is good✦ …
It has been years since I last went to Mamak, and since I had proper Malaysian food in a restaurant. Mamak is notorious for its long lines but we skipped these by arriving at 5.30pm. At 5.30pm, there were no queues and several empty tables. …
Lotus has a few different locations in Sydney, this post covers the venue at the Galeries Victoria. Located in the corner of Level 1, I was taken aback by the size of the restaurant. It is much larger than it looks from the outside, and …
Recently I stopped off in Hong Kong for a quick visit. When I was there, I visited one of my favourite places to grab a quick, cheap bite to eat – the Temple Street Night Markets in Jordan. These markets are fast paced, lively and …
Once a year on my birthday I get taken to somewhere nice for dinner. This year it was the boathouse at Blackwattle Bay, across the water from the fish markets. I’d always passed this restaurant when I was training for dragon boat races but had …
After a short shopping session one day, my friend took me to Ribs & Burgers. It is a chain located in various locations across NSW and other Australian states, specialising in – you guessed it – ribs and burgers. We went to the Rhodes location. …
Duck & Waffle seems to be a place that everyone talks about. If you haven’t been before, you know that you’ll go there eventually. I was relieved to find out that it lived up to the hype. The concept is a 24 hour restaurant and …
Dalson is an epicentre of edgy cool. It’s still rough around the edges and grungy but with so many pop-ups, hipster restaurants and bars, most twenty-something Londoners would be hard pressed to avoid it. My friend told me about Mussel Men, a new place that …
The Shed is a short walk from Notting Hill Gate tube station. It has a daily-changing menu with a focus on sustainable ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking. I have found that nose-to-tail cooking is not as prominent in London as it is in Sydney, so it …
To me, Fitzrovia is that strange, albeit posh no-man’s land in between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road. Does such a tiny amount of space really need a name? Berner’s Tavern is very lovely, slightly fancy restaurant in the London Edition Hotel. Its claim to …