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SIFF Ashfield’s Big Yum Cha 2010

November 19, 2010

Ashfield’s Big Yum Cha is a suburban cultural food festival, one of the official festivals that is a part of the Crave Sydney International Food Festival (SIFF). A festival within a festival, much like the layers of a Matryoshka doll. The festival is a reverse yum cha of sorts, where it’s the people that move [...]

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Crave SIFF – Cabramatta Allsorts Barbecue 2010

October 4, 2010

Tiles of toffee-crisp pork crackling on a whole barbecue roasted pig is a sight to behold. The anticipation of that light, brittle crunch that shatters to the bite; a stark contrast to the soft, juicy & sweet pork that lays beneath. It makes my mouth water just writing about it. This fine specimen of roast [...]

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Iron Chef Chinese Seafood Restaurant

September 27, 2010

Utter the words “Iron Chef” and I can’t but help to think of that cooking game show that fills me with mixed emotions of awe & wonder (the Japanese production with English voice overs), revulsion (Iron Chef USA, the one with William Shatner), and more recently, curiosity (the currently in production Iron Chef Australia). I [...]

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If You Meet Buddha on the Road – the heart of Malaysia & Thailand: Day 2

June 8, 2010

Malaysia, day two. The food tour group’s first day on the road leads us to a bubbling cauldron of meat, bones and end trails, with a little toil and trouble; a flash flood and a growing dislike for a deity; seafood with a lyrical name; and taking a fresh approach when facing an arch nemesis [...]

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A Journey of a Thousand Meals – the heart of Malaysia & Thailand: Day 1

June 1, 2010

A journey, when seen through the rose-tinted perspective of a metaphor, is one that not only implies a sense of adventure, but also a degree of change and growth in one’s self. A recent journey (in the literal sense), a food-centric tour of Malaysia and Thailand, with fellow food bloggers Billy, Helen & Minh, along [...]

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AUthentic Asian – SIFF Night Noodle Markets 2009

October 22, 2009

The Sydney International Food Festival’s Night Noodle Markets. I was eagerly awaiting the opportunity to attend this year’s event, having read press on the SIFF website selling it as an “authentic Asian hawker market“. I’d never been previously and had heard little about it. Authentic Asian hawker market. With what seems to be a decent [...]

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