Occasional stories, food and travel inspiration
I miss Shanghai. It's a big, brash, frontier city where buildings go up seemingly overnight, hundreds of new restaurants open every week and you can...
The other day, I returned home to interrogate my husband with the age-old question: "how much do you love me?" "Out of ten? Maybe an eight," he sai...
Every year I cook something as a Christmas gift for family and friends. My daughter usually helps, and we spend a fun couple of hours baking and wrapp...
My dear friend Eli once cooked me a delicious rice salad when we were both living in London in the early 2000s. As an Australian-born Chinese, I've...
Are you a food blogger? Do you love pavlova, that iconic Australian meringue and cream dessert? Have you ever been curious about making one? Well, we...
Last Wednesday I joined Neil Perry (Rockpool, Spice Temple and The Waiting Room), the Spencer Gulf and West Coast Prawn Fishermens Association, the M...
As the final official event of Eat Drink Blog 11, the second Australian Food Bloggers Conference, we have dinner at Kingley's Steak and Crabhouse at ...
Last Thursday, I was thrilled to receive an email asking me if I was interested in a last-minute spot at Eat Drink Blog 11, to be held that Saturd...
Seafood is one of my ultimate feasts. It's both a must for extravagant celebrations and everyday family life. However, it must be fresh and it must ...
When I was a girl I used to have a number of regular day-dreams. One favourite involved me getting accidentally locked in a chocolate factory overn...
My dad's friend, Barry, is an amazing gardener, growing all kinds of vegetables, fruits and flowers. He is generous with his crop, too, always giving ...
When we were recently in Malaysia we ate the most amazing sui gao (dumplings) at my Grandmother's house, bought from the local hawker stall. So this i...
