December 2016

Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta 1

Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta

Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta is one of the easiest pasta dish to make, you don’t even have to cook the sauce, usually this dish is prepared with sautéed prawns in garlic and other spices and the sauce is made out of mayonnaise and sweet chilli sauce When I first saw...

Al Forno Italian Restaurant (North Shore City, New Zealand) 4

Al Forno Italian Restaurant (North Shore City, New Zealand)

There are many restaurants in Takapuna and like I said before we are challenging ourselves to try them all and post only those we like in here. We had tried several already like Mamak, Sal’s, Myeong Dong, Eight Colours, Bian Sushi and Donburi and Sake Bar Nippon to name some...

Sambal Chicken 1

Sambal Chicken

Sambal Chicken is a very flavourful chicken meat dish, juicy inside with a distinctive glutinous crunch on the outside served with a really pungent, sweet spicy hot and tangy sauce perfect with a freshly steamed rice. I hated this when I first tried it in Malaysia because it was so...

Musashi Japanese Cuisine (North Shore City, New Zealand) 9

Musashi Japanese Cuisine (North Shore City, New Zealand)

Our quest for finding the best affordable Japanese restaurant have brought us to this place, the Musashi Japanese Cuisine. Located at Milford this was recently discovered by my wife and it was a good one. We came here on a lunch time so we ordered some lunch sets. Most Japanese...

Yema Cake 2

Yema Cake

Yema Cake is a type of chiffon or sponge cake infused with cream cheese then flavoured with yema, a type of milk custard candy popular in the Philippines. Yema cake is not a traditional Filipino cake but rather a new creation that most probably have been created less than 20...

Arroz ala Valenciana 1

Arroz ala Valenciana

Arroz Valenciana is one of the dishes back in the Philippines with a Spanish origin, it resembles a Paella but its not from the paella but from a similarly named dish. Arroz ala Valenciana is one of the dishes back in the Philippines with a Spanish origin, it resembles a Paella...

Crispy Dinuguan 1

Crispy Dinuguan

Crispy Dinuguan is a dish from Kanin Club made with a combination of crispy pork (probably lechon kawali and dinuguan. I always get excited when I meet someone who just freshly arrived from the Philippines, why? Because I haven’t been back since 2003 and I don’t know what Philippines do...

Chocolate Revel Bars 2

Chocolate Revel Bars

Chocolate Revel Bars is a type of chewy crunchy dessert / snack made with oats, nuts, chocolates and condensed milk, it’s one of the best thing you can make with oatmeal. Chocolate Revel Bars is a type of chewy crunchy dessert / snack made with oats, nuts, chocolates and condensed...

Eggnog 1

Eggnog

Eggnog is a type of drink or milk punch made with milk and/or cream, sugar, whipped eggs, rum and cinnamon then serve chilled, usually this is enjoyed from Thanksgiving through the end of the Christmas season Six more days and its Christmas (5 for Filipinos ) and I know a...