July 2016

Chicken 65 1

Chicken 65

Chicken 65 is a boneless fried chicken but not your usual one as this one is spicy and hot, originating from Chennai, India this dish is usually served as an entrée or quick snack. Here in New Zealand if you love Vietnamese food like us then most probably you would...

Ginataang Talong 1

Ginataang Talong

Ginataang Talong is a Filipino dish of eggplant and pork cooked in coconut milk sometimes with green chillies Ginataan one of the many cooking methods in the Philippine cuisine where ingredients are cooked in coconut milk, popular ones are fish pork chicken and vegetables like squash and string beans. The...

Sake Bar Nippon (North Shore City, New Zealand) 9

Sake Bar Nippon (North Shore City, New Zealand)

Me and my wife will never ever get tired of the Japanese cuisine the combination of its simplicity and delicate flavours is just impeccable we can’t skip a Japanese restaurant when we pass by it. Luckily there are many Japanese restaurants in Auckland so we have a lot of options...

Honey Lemon Salabat 1

Honey Lemon Salabat

Salabat is a traditional ginger hot drink in the Philippines, usually served during the rainy season and it believed to have a lot of uses and cures which elaborate further below. Salabat is a traditional ginger hot drink in the Philippines, usually served during the rainy season and it believed...

Seafood Teppanyaki 1

Seafood Teppanyaki

Seafood Teppanyaki is a Japanese dish made out of mixed seafood like fish, squid, scallops, mussels, clams and any seafood you can think of, it is just seasoned with salt then pan grilled One of the easiest mixed seafood dish to prepare is this Seafood Teppanyaki, made out of mixed...

Ham Fettuccine Bake 1

Ham Fettuccine Bake

Today we will be making a creamy pasta the Ham Fettuccine Bake where it is prepared with leftover ham, some fettuccine, peas, milk and cheese. A very comforting casserole that can be easily prepared on a busy week night. Ham when you buy them usually comes as a big chunk of...

Hot and Sour Mushroom Soup with Bok Choy 1

Hot and Sour Mushroom Soup with Bok Choy

This Hot and Sour Mushroom Soup with Bok Choy is inspired from the Asian hot and sour soup but instead of using meats we infused it with and array of different mushrooms to give it that earthy meaty edge missing from most vegetable soups. This soup is inspired from the...

Euro Restaurant & Bar (Auckland CBD, New Zealand) 6

Euro Restaurant & Bar (Auckland CBD, New Zealand)

If you want and impeccable service then dine at this place and you will be treated like a king the floor staff is just amazing in everything they do but what about their food? We dined in here a couple of months ago on a lunch time, there were some...

Fried Snapper in Tamarind Sauce 2

Fried Snapper in Tamarind Sauce

Fried Snapper in Tamarind Sauce is a simple fried fish cooked until the extremities become crispy then served with a tamarind sauce. In Southeast Asia with lots coastlines fried fish is commonly served on dining tables from simple as just fried to something served with different sauces like sweet and sour,...

Bún bò Huế 1

Bún bò Huế

Bún bò Huế is one hell of a delicious noodle soup dish, it’s a meat lover’s perfect bowl as this amazing Central Vietnamese noodle soup is made from tender slices of beef shanks and pork hocks. Bún bò Huế is one hell of a delicious noodle soup dish, it’s a...