Occasional stories, food and travel inspiration
In my family, my dad is the Noodle King. Born in Penang, home to the mighty Asam Laksa, my dad came out to Australia in the 60s as a high school st...
One thing I love about being a food blogger, writer and recipe developer is that every eating experience can be considered 'research.' In the name o...
Summer = ice cream in my house. We're eating it pretty much non-stop at the moment, stopping only for meals, which is when my kids say that they're no...
Regular readers will know that I was one of the organisers of Eat Drink Blog 3 (EDB3), the third Australian Food Bloggers Conference which happened in...
Happy New Year everyone! We spent the last day of 2012 cockling at Goolwa Beach and it reminded me of this story I wrote three years ago about my c...
Spice Souk "You want spice?" "Where you from?" "Ni hao!" ('Hello' in Chinese lol.) I'm in the Spice Souk in Dubai and smiling stallholders...
It's three days until Christmas and I have not sent a single Christmas card or bought one present. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OK. I feel better now. ...
Can you believe it's only one week until Christmas? Nope, I can't believe it, either. This year has flo-o-o-wn by. I love this time of year. It...
It's funny how you always want what you don't have. When I was growing up in Australia, I wanted to be Oliva Newton-John in Grease. I practised sin...
Whenever I mentioned I was going to Dubai at the end of October the response was always the same. "Dubai? Wow. Hey, you can do Sex and the City 2....
I love feeding people. Maybe it's the Chinese mother in me but I often express my affections through food. So if you're in my good books, I'm going...
Sometimes food is swoon-worthy. You know what I mean. Your teeth sink into a dish and the minute the food reaches your tastebuds you see shootin...
