Monthly Archives: October 2007

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).  

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

Feed me =)

Everybody know Macao is known for casinos and making a quick buck on the jackpot machine.  But if you can ever convince yourself to get out of the casino, take a look outside and you’ll realize Macao has a food culture too.  In many ways similiar to Hong Kong but on a more home-style cooking