August 2019

Spiced Grilled Fish 1

Spiced Grilled Fish

Spiced Grilled Fish is a simple dish of oven grilled fish dry rubbed with spices such as garlic, Cajun seasoning, salt and pepper. It’s still cold here in New Zealand but there is no stopping me to grill a good piece of fish fillet, for you in the Northern Hemisphere...

Batangas Lomi 1

Batangas Lomi

Batangas Lomi is a type of Filipino noodle dish prepared with thick yellow noodles served in a gooey soup thickened by sweet potato starch topped with loads of pork meat, pork offal, chicharon and kikiam. If pizza has meat lovers then Lomi has its own version of meat lovers too,...

Top 9 Communal Dining Ideas

I was inspired to write this list after my colleagues told me that Boodle Fight was quite a good idea for dining as it was quite interactive at the same time brings everyone together in a dining table in a very personal manner, meaning more interaction with everyone. Some of...

Poke Bowl 1

Poke Bowl

Poke Bowl is a Hawaiian dish traditionally prepared with fresh filleted and cubed fish served with condiments such as slat, candlenuts, seaweeds and limu. Poke is a Hawaiian word that means “to slice” or “cut crosswise into pieces” and that’s what exactly this dish is, a Hawaiian traditional dish prepared...

Ramen Do (Auckland CBD, New Zealand) 1

Ramen Do (Auckland CBD, New Zealand)

Ohhh Ramen, I can’t get enough of this one. It’s one of the best comfort meals ever made. In my whole existence I had tried many ramens already even the ones in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. The real Japanese ones was so good, they really take their broth so seriously...

Gochujang Eggplant and Pork 1

Gochujang Eggplant and Pork

Gochujang Eggplant and Pork is an East Asian inspired dish prepared with stir fried pork pieces and eggplant cooked with gochujang and black beans. Another freestyle recipe this time its inspired by many East Asian cuisines. Several weeks ago, we bought this Gochujang as my daughter was craving for some...

Sinanta 1

Sinanta

Sinanta is a Filipino noodle dish from Cagayan Valley which is prepared with flat egg noodles, rice vermicelli, spring onions, clams, chicken and pork in an annatto infused broth. Sinanta a humble noodle soup dish from Cagayan Valley that need great attention, Why? To be frank this so far is...

16 Ways to Cook Bulalo

One of the beloved Filipino beef cuts for is the Bulalo, the leg bone section of a cow that is meaty, fatty and full of collagen, not to mention that buttery marrow that comes with it. Usually these cuts are tough but once cooked right there is no coming back,...

Pork Leg, Lentil, Peas and Bean Stew 1

Pork Leg, Lentil, Peas and Bean Stew

Pork Leg, Lentil, Peas and Bean Stew is an Ang Sarap original recipe of slowly cooked pork leg in a soup of dried peas, beans, lentils and spinach. I don’t know why for Asians slowly cooked pork leg and trotters sounds so delicious, the mere thought of it may make...

Nelayan Restaurant (Melbourne, Australia) 1

Nelayan Restaurant (Melbourne, Australia)

On our last review I mentioned that we sneaked out of our first day event as we feel like having a full Asian meal with rice and/or noodles rather than eating cocktails before having a night of unlimited booze. The next day event was a similar scenario where we sneaked...