My sketching/painting has suffered greatly this past year due to various commitments. One particular focus of my attention is the largest contributor to the stagnancy. One specific aspect of this has persistently dogged me this week. I’ll commemorate this illustrating slump with this old drawing, which aptly depicts how I feel at the moment. What...
This morning, V and I dropped into the new Bourke Street Bakery in Potts Point, which opened around November (?), to grab some bread and a quick breakfast. The latest of the Bourke Street Bakeries, this is the largest and nicest one I’ve been to (though I’ve yet to visit the Marrickville branch). In stark...
Before rain started bucketing today, apparently for what now passes as a summer day in Sydney, V and I trotted on over to Surry Hills to try out a cafe she was interested in. Alas, they hadn’t opened yet, thus making a future trip necessary. The Urbanspoon app had taken our GPS position and laid...
For close to the entirety of the last decade, neither professional requirements nor my sartorial ambitions (or lack thereof) necessitated knowing more than one way to secure neckwear. A healthy inquisitiveness (read: boredom) has since taught me the multitude of variants (read: 2) to the windsor knot. Abundance of options notwithstanding, the four in hand...
I attended my very first food blogger event, arranged by the bubbly ChocolateSuze and the lovely Helen of GrabYourFork, last Saturday at Centennial Park. Though dark clouds hovered ominously in the sky, the rain kept at bay and the Sydney Food Bloggers Picnic commenced. As more and more bloggers arrived, food in tow, the spread...
I had a slight lull in food blogging in December. Besides being overseas for most of the month, the silly season still brought about a few opportunities to try out new Sydney restaurants. Alas, a couple of these places left a bad taste in our mouths; the experiences were less than stellar. I’ll write about...
On the way home from airport drops offs last week, Mom and I went to Fort Bonifacio for lunch. We drove past the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, which I hadn’t seen since I was a kid. With the recent sale and commercial growth of Fort Bonifacio, I’d wondered what had happened to this 615,000...
For our recent family holiday in the Philippines, where our geographically-challenged immediate family converged from three different continents to meet at a fourth, my brother had expertly organised yet another trip; a holiday within a holiday. To get away from the pre-Christmas crowds of Manila, we flew South to Coron, Palawan, renown for its island...
Not having been to Hong Kong since the turnover, I recently dropped in while in transit to take in the sights, to do a spot of shopping and to catch up with R, who had recently relocated there. I hit the ground running and explore Lantau Island; I visited the Tai O Fishing Village, checked...
I have a special place in my heart belly reserved for slow cooked dishes… casseroles, stews, and best of all, roasts. The humble stew mostly requires a gathering of ingredients and throwing it all into a pot, and then it’s a cooking in low heat and coming back. Since it will be cooked through, you...
We caught up with R & L last week. Though we live on the same street, we’re separated by a kilometre of CBD. Thankfully, aforementioned kilometre is abundant with dining choices. For a cheap and casual mid-week meal, we picked a spot roughly equidistant of us. Apparently, the Shark Hotel had recently been renovated and...
NOTE: Prior post on District Dining located here. It’s been a long time since my initial visit to District Dining. This time around was a little bit more special: V took me out to celebrate a personal milestone. Needless to say, we stuffed ourselves. I wanted V to try the Crispy Quail Eggs with Tarragon...
