Posted in Asian, Australian, China, Chinese, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, recipe, traveleating on Jul 5th, 2009
When I first came across Australian chef and restaurateur Neil Perry‘s Balance & Harmony – Asian Food in a bookshop earlier this year, I was impressed with its beautiful padded cover and glorious photos. It has to be one of the most beautifully designed cookery books I’ve come across recently. However, I had little time [...]
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Background: My foodie boss was the one who recommended Giaconda, although it’s been on the lips of every food blogger since it opened on Tin Pan Alley, or Denmark Street, earlier this year. It’s named after the famous Giaconda Café (a popular musicians’ hangout in the 1960s) and serves reasonably priced French-influenced dishes in a [...]
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Posted in Alan Yau, Australian, bakery, Beijing, cafe, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dining out, England, fish and chips, food, Hong Kong, Italian, London, Macau, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 30th, 2008
The monthly summary for November… The first half of the month was spent frantically trying to finish the remainder of the Postcards from China. Each day of the China trip has finally been written up as Postcards, outlining not only our eating experiences, but also travel tips, noteworthy places to visit and interesting shops we [...]
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[UPDATE: January 2009 - I returned to Lantana for a late takeaway lunch. The music that was playing was a ballad, but cranked up as before. Luckily I was only there for under 5 minutes. I ordered the lamb tagine with pomegranate couscous (£5.50), but by the time I returned to the office (just a [...]
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