my dad has a happy place in malaysia. it’s called chuai heng hehe it’s a restaurant in KL that noods’ uncle (hihi uncle ken!) introduced us to that serves the best suckling pig evahh


noods’ aunt (hihi aunty lee moon!) is ready for some piggy!


baby bok choi, awesome tofu, fat mushroom


PIGGEH!


crispy crackling mmm heh and piggy ears


my dad likes the tail…


steamed fish


after we ate all the crackling they took the piggy carcass away and chopped and grilled it with a special sweet sauce


frog legs lol i was a bit squeamish becos id never eaten frogs legs before… it tastes like a cross between chicken and fish heh it’s not something i would order again because i kept imagining the legs kicking…


glutinous rice


veggies


salted egg mooncake with almond slivers and snowskin mooncakes for dessert


a teapot with a teapot warmer! i was so fascinated with this how come we dont have this in oz? we have hot chocolate with chocolate warmer but not tea heh im easily amused

after the foodbloggers meetup at yumcha, the boy who had driven me into the city and hung around at his work guilt tripped me into having a second lunch with him and so i found myself at his favourite pub since uni days


lansdowne hotel (2-6 City Rd, Chippendale) park at broadway shopping centre for free 2 hrs parking


the lansdowne hotel is probably best known for its $5meals and for a handful of change you can get pretty decent meals (you have to buy a drink to get the $5meal). offerings include nachos, burgers, fish n chips but the star here is the steak! i wasnt expecting much for a $5 steak thinking eh itll be tiny and most likely tasteless and im kinda full so ill order one and see how we go but oh boy oh boy it was fantastic! way better than some restaurants where you pay $20-$30 the boy got upset when he realised i was chomping thru my steak pretty fast because he was counting on me being full so he could eat my steak hahaha unlucky =D


mmm steaky

we were at The Curve attempting to find the boy some shoes when we spotted the Nanxiang Steamed Bun restaurant which is another chain of dumpling restaurants thats as famous as Din Tai Fung. we’d walked past it several times that day and only just saw a sign for a giant xiao long bao as we were leaving. i pleaded my case for the need to have such a bao and the boy shrugged and said hed watch me eat lol


xiao long bao maker! when i told noods the size of the ‘giant’ xiao long bao he luckily ordered another one so i wouldnt have to share heh


waiting to be steamed


hee! so cute right?


the giant xiao long bao filled with crab roe, dried scallop with double boiled soup (RM15). heh drinking soup with a straw!


the super cheerful waitresses warned us the soup would be hot and to let it sit for a while. at first we waited as long as we could but then still burned our tongues lol so started stabbing at it to get to the soup which was so tasty and packed with fresh ginger


cheers!

Its been more than a year since the last meetup and it has been way overdue with the recent flood of bright-eyed food loving bloggers on the scene. Christie from the awesome Fig & Cherry organised our shindig and it was great to meet (and re-meet): helen from Grab Your Fork, lorraine from Not Quite Nigella, jen from jenius, qingling and howard from Eat Show and Tell, reem from i am obsessed with food, belle and william from Ooh, look, lisa from Spicy Icecream and kathryn from Limes and Lycopene. as the food arrived there was a slight pause and some sheepish grins as we whipped out our cameras before diving in


yum cha at east ocean (421 – 429 Sussex St, Haymarket). service was chirpy and the trolley ladies were slightly bemused as our table raced to be the first to take a photo of the dimsum they had just placed on our table


heh i took photos of the savoury food but uh i was alot more interested in the desserts =D funny how theyre all yellow it’s like im back in my high school yellow food phase again… we didnt order the watermelon holding fruit salad but it looked so pretty being wheeled out on the trolley… a giant thanks to belle and william for ordering me the thousand layer cake! for nearly 10 years i have been looking for this ‘cake’! more of the texture of a steamed bun but with layers of sweet dough alternating with a slightly salty egg custard ah good times


and as is tradition, a photo of all us… from behind! for those not wanting our identity revealed heh i dunno about everyone else but i was still smiling when the waiter took this shot of our behinds…

it was great to meet everyone! hope we get together soon dudes!

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Food Bloggers meetup at Adriano Zumbo
Food Bloggers meetup at Nick’s Seafood & Lindt
Sydney Foodbloggers High Tea at Crossroads Bar, Swissotel