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Real or fake?

I took this photo to confuse you.  Can you tell if this is real food or just plastic models?  You may not tell if this is real food but you can see there’s a wide variety of sushi here.  Would you eat it?

Cooking in Aussie (3)

Did some chinese cooking for a group BBQ today (feed about 30 people). Did 2 x big “plates” of Hokkien mee (fried 4 times using a large frying pan, used 2 kg of prawns to brew the stock) .  Also see in the background some of the Jap cooking materials I’ve found as well as relative [...]

Eating in Aussie (3)

Here’s a really decent steak I had in Sizzlers here. Beef here is really diff from what u get from Singapore. Here being the beef capital of Australia, the beef is only chilled upon slaughter before it reaches the restaurant the very same day (so I was told).

 

Mimigar

I was having dinner at Iggy’s with Tim the other night, he casually mentioned that in this month alone, 4 new Japanese restaurants have opened up. And yes, he has tried them all. Of the 4, only Mimigar came up good in his review. (When it comes to Japanese food Tim knows it all, so [...]

Macao specialties

You cannot come to Macao without tasting their Portuguese Tarts.  I tried asking around but most people seems to agree that the tarts aren’t really from Portugal.  I don’t really remember the last time I had them but I quite like it this time round.  The tarts are primarily egg custard on some puff or [...]

Did I eat that?

Endless lap cheong, chinese sausages and waxed meats.  This is what I found in the local markets that would eventually end up in my Chinese sausage claypot dinner, few days earlier.  There are tons of such Chinese delicacies in Macao’s fresh markets.  I took a bus and headed for the Red Market where I found [...]

Don’t feed me

 

This is one of the main reasons I’m pretty adamant that people serving and handling Japanese food must be trained and properly educated on the cuisine.  I find it applauding that sashimi seafood are not graded accordingly.  I will never trust raw seafood that are not graded properly for raw consumption.  Hey it may be [...]