January 2021

Chicken Castanets

Chicken Castanets is a Filipino recipe prepared with pan seared marinated chicken cooked with chorizo, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes. When you have a food blog, you follow other food blogs to get new ideas and basically try their recipes as well. These recipes sometimes are just OK but there are...

Miss Miss (Auckland CBD, New Zealand)

Bubble Tea shops are everywhere, it’s just like mushrooms, it just sprouts into action without you noticing them. Take this place for example, we pass by this street once in a while then all of a sudden there was Miss Miss, I am not sure if I just did not...

Mushroom, Bok Choy and Eggplant Stir Fry

Mushroom, Bok Choy and Eggplant Stir Fry is a simple dish of sliced mushrooms, bok choy and Asian eggplants sautéed in garlic and onions with oyster sauce. Oyster sauce is one of the best go to sauce for Bok Choy, just a simple blanch of Bok Choy drizzled with sautéed...

Mighty Hotdog (Auckland CBD, New Zealand)

Korean hot dogs, this is what this shop Mighty Hotdog offers. While it may look like a corn dog, it is far from that, trust me it is way much better. Unlike corn dogs where it uses cornmeal batter, this one is more like a dense chewy fluffy doughnut filled...

Beef Sinina

Sinina is a Filipino dish popular in Maguindanao served during Kalilang and Kanduli. It is usually made with beef or goat cooked with carrots, potatoes, palapa, tomatoes and spices in coconut milk. If you love curries then you would be excited with our dish today, the Beef Sinina. A special...

Fried Siomai

Fried siomai is a type of open topped dumplings filled with pork, mushrooms and prawns wrapped in wonton wrapper then deep fried. During the old days fried siomai was non-existent (at least commercially), and since then siomai has all spotlight pointing to it, a Filipino favourite that is eaten as...

Own Tea (North Shore City, New Zealand)

This perhaps is the neatest and cleanest looking Bubble Tea places I visited in Auckland, it’s quite minimalist, it’s all white and the tea leaf displayed on those transparent cubes in front of the counter looks so cool. Located in Rosedale, this is one of our latest Bubble Tea adventure....

Cheesy Broccoli Bites

Cheesy Broccoli Bites is a side dish / finger food of deep-fried breaded mixture of broccoli florets, cheese and eggs. This thing is so cheesy you will forget there is broccoli on this one. Cheesy Broccoli Bites is an excellent finger food or side dish, it’s so addictive and easy...

Tinola sa Miso

Tinola sa Miso is a version of the famous Filipino Chicken ginger soup called tinola where yellow miso is added for extra umami boost Miso is such a great ingredient, it adds a lot of umami, a dollop of this on your recipe will surely make it shine. It is...