August 2021

Creamy Kimchi Bacon Spaghetti

Creamy Kimchi Bacon Spaghetti is a type of pasta with a Korean twist, prepared with spaghetti noodles where it is tossed in a creamy and mildly spicy sauce prepared with bacon, parmesan cheese, fermented cabbage in chillies (kimchi) and cream. The first time I tried something similar to our dish...

Copycat Ribchon Baby Back Baboy

Copycat Ribchon Baby Back Baboy is a copycat Baby Back Baboy recipe from the famous Tagaytay restaurant Ribchon. A pork rib dish seasoned with spices and aromatics used in lechon then slowly grilled to tender perfection. Let me start this post by mentioning that I haven’t tried the real thing...

Buns and Rolls (Westgate, Auckland, New Zealand)

Back in the Philippines dining in at food courts is a regular occurrence not because we like it but it makes a lot of sense when all you do on a weeknight or a weekend is to visit a mall. Mall life in Asian countries is quite a big thing,...

Japanese Siomai

Japanese Siomai is a type of minced pork and sometimes with prawns where it is wrapped in nori sheets instead of the usual dimsum wrapper, giving it a unique seafood taste. I have been into Japan, Hong Kong and China and probably I had seen one of these types of...

BBQ Noodles House (Albany, North Shore, New Zealand)

BBQ Noodles House is one of the places we visit one in a while when we crave for affordable Chinese food in a hurry. We pass this place regularly when we go to Albany so it’s quite handy if we don’t have any ideas on where to eat. This was the...

Garlic Butter Razor Clams

Garlic Butter Razor Clams is a simple recipe of steamed Razor Clams served with fried garlic and butter sauce. I got so excited when I saw this Razor Clams at our local supermarket, I haven’t had this for ages and even forgot when was the last time. Usually, I plan...

Cheesy Baked Salmon

Cheesy Baked Salmon is a salmon dish where whole salmon steaks are lightly seasoned with garlic, pepper, lemon and salt, then topped with creamy mayonnaise, bechamel sauce and quick melt cheese then baked until top turns golden brown. For me, salmon is one of the best seafood out there, it...

Zhangliang Malatang (Albany, North Shore, New Zealand)

Do you know what Malatang is? Originally created as a street food in Sichuan this common type of Chinese dish is basically a very spicy and mouth numbing soup dish where you can choose any ingredient to come with it. Ingredients such as vegetables, meat, seafood, tofu, variety of seafood...

Street Eats 2021

Street Food and Entertainment is what this event is all about, Street Eats 2021, were glad we tried this one out after one of our close friends gave us a couple of tickets. We did not know what to expect and was wondering it would be something like Taste of...