Rejoicing in the long Friday lunch at Marque

by Forager on September 2, 2010

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Dining at a three hat restaurant is reserved for special occasions and this occasion was no exception. There were a couple of important milestones to celebrate amongst my colleagues; JC had reached a significant target at work and The Bride had an impending marriage date and was more than happy to shout it proudly to [...]

Tagged as: French, Friday lunch, Mark Best, Marque, Surry Hills, three hats

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Developing an appreciation for sake at Ocean Room

by Forager on August 25, 2010

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Sake and I got off on the wrong foot. My first encounter with sake was at a young age, many, many years ago, back when I was still studying science at uni. I remember spending a particularly gruelling and long day in the lab performing experiments to extract DNA from bacterial cells (never thought I’d [...]

Tagged as: degustation, Japanese, Ocean Room, Raita Noda, sake, sake tasting, Toshi Maeda

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Of genetics, fast cars and good wine

August 14, 2010
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Fancy a tipple? We’ve all heard that drinking in moderation is fine – even good for our health in low enough doses, but what does “moderation” mean for each of us? In Australia, guidelines suggest women drink no more than 2 standard drinks a day, men no more than 4 standard drinks – it doesn’t [...]

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The tastiest lasagne recipe ever

August 4, 2010
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Sometimes, on long drives, we play games to amuse ourselves and keep the driver alert. One game we played on a long drive with friends DanW and Katie, was “identify five foods you’d take to a deserted island“. My intention was to simply identify the 5 foods you couldn’t ever live without. The brief sounds [...]

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Learning to ride a bike on Death Road, Bolivia

July 29, 2010
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With the recent end of the Tour de France, it seems befitting that I post about my own personal cycling challenge. When we were planning our trip to Bolivia last year, one standout adventure presented itself again and again and refused to be ignored: cycling down “the world’s most dangerous road“, better known as Death [...]

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Discovering Indian at Aki’s, Woolloomooloo

July 20, 2010
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India is a bit of a mystery to me – I’ve not visited her crowded colourful shores, or experienced the culture which I perceive as foreign, in-your-face confronting and mesmerisingly intoxicating all at once. The Co-pilot journeyed to India 3 years ago and came back with detailed accounts and remarkable photos of exotic cities coloured [...]

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Steak tartare, a Bastille Day tribute

July 14, 2010
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The Co-pilot travels more than anyone I know. He travels internationally a few times a year for business, and another few times for pleasure. Not to mention all the domestic travelling he does. Despite all that, he seems to have a never ending supply of annual leave remaining and I have long suspected there is [...]

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Game degustation at Restaurant Balzac, Randwick

July 11, 2010
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Foraging is in my blood. The thrill of gathering wild plants and capturing wild animals has been a long obsession of mine,  inspired by plenty of Chinese period dramas showing heroic ancient warriors hunting down they prey with bows and arrows and roasting the delicious morsels over a camp fire. I was so obsessed that [...]

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Monkey Magic, Surry Hills

July 6, 2010
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The words “Monkey Magic” evoke very fond childhood memories for me. Memories of running home from primary school with my brother; scooting up to the TV as close as we dared without crossing that invisible line that would make our mother scold us about going short-sighted; and watching the afternoon cartoon session that included a [...]

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Vietnamese beef fondue, bo nhung dam

July 2, 2010
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The recent long weekend represented a great opportunity to gather friends, head out of Sydney, down to the home of my best friend, L-bean, and feast! And everytime we catch up, we write another chapter in the book on feasting! L-bean is more than just a best friend – she’s a sister to me. She [...]

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