October 2017

Ginga Restaurant (Brisbane, Australia) 1

Ginga Restaurant (Brisbane, Australia)

There are a lot of places to dine in the South Bank area of Brisbane, so many it will take you months just to try them all. I had my fair share of dining on this street, perhaps around 10 now and counting and the most recent one is this...

Pork and Baby Bok Choy Sambal Stir Fry 1

Pork and Baby Bok Choy Sambal Stir Fry

Pork and Baby Bok Choy Sambal Stir Fry is a simple dish of chopped baby bok choy sauteed in onions and garlic with crispy pork and sambal sauce. I haven’t freestyled for a while and today the opportunity arises after I cooked something that needed a vegetable side dish. With...

28 Filipino Soup Recipes

28 Filipino Soup Recipes

28 Filipino Soup Recipes, a collection of heart warming truly pinoy soup recipes that will keep you warm on winters or even on cold rainy nights I live in the Southern Hemisphere so our climate here is going towards summer but for those in the Northern Hemisphere it is the...

Burger Urge (Brisbane, Australia) 4

Burger Urge (Brisbane, Australia)

Brisbane Airport is not that huge, it’s quite a small airport hence there are only few dining places once you passed through immigration checks, roughly there are 6 places to eat and I mostly tried them all. One of them was this Burger Urge, I usually skip this place because...

Bulgogi Jungol 1

Bulgogi Jungol

Bulgogi Jungol is a Korean stew dish prepared with bulgogi, noodles, mushrooms, vegetables and tofu, usually cooked in a shallow pot Bulgogi is a very well-known Korean dish, we all know it’s made with beef slices marinated in a sweet style soy sauce tenderized by pears then grilled but do...

Filipino Restaurants in Auckland 2

Bonds of Bread (North Shore City, New Zealand)

This is quite a late post as we visited this place several weeks after it opened but its better late than never specially if its worthy noting specially a place something like this. Yes, for the first time (I think) a proper Filipino bakery opens in Auckland, there were some...

Kinalabasang Sugpo 2

Kinalabasang Sugpo

Kinalabasang Sugpo is a Filipino dish made with squash, prawns and malunggay leaves usually cooked with stock or coconut milk. Kinalabasang Sugpo is a Filipino dish made with squash, prawns and malunggay leaves usually cooked with stock or coconut milk. A common household dish that is served with freshly cooked...

Jjampong 1

Jjampong

Jjamppong is a Korean noodle soup dish made with mixed seafood prepared together with thin pork slices, vegetables and mushrooms in a spicy pork broth Jjamppong is a Korean noodle soup dish made with mixed seafood such as prawns, clams, mussels and squid prepared together with thin pork slices, vegetables...

Fairwood (Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong) 5

Fairwood (Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong)

I don’t know I am so fond of fast food restaurant like this, Fairwood like Cafe de Coral and Can-teen offers home-style food in a fast food style fashion. I would definitely choose these over burger chains or fried chicken joints, and that’s the Asian in me coming out. Fairwood...

Stir-fried Eggplant and Green Beans 1

Stir-fried Eggplant and Green Beans

Stir-fried Eggplant and Green Beans as the name suggest is a stir fry of the two vegetables on a savoury spicy sauce made with soy sauce and chillies Stir-fried Eggplant and Green Beans as the name suggest is a stir fry of the two vegetables on a savoury spicy sauce...