Archive for "March, 2011"

March wrap up

What a hectic month March has been. Lots of food tastings, events, dinners and talks, everything seems to have flown by in a blink. While work and other commitments have restricted the number of events possible, I have enjoyed those I did get to. One of the highlights was the Twilight Hawker Markets that got [...]

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Amusé Project Mayhem

Flicking through the Eat Drink Perth 2011 pullout guide earlier this month, one of the events that caught my immediate attention was The Amusé Project for two main reasons. First, I’ve recently had a meal at the restaurant and, despite reading many prior write-ups, was blown away by the quality, inventiveness and exquisite presentation of [...]

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aPHOcalypse: The phodown @ sundown

Eating as a sport, when you think about it, is rather against the ethos of being a foodie. In competitive eating, you have to eat vast quantities within in a short span of time. To be at the top of one’s game, the “athelete” should ideally have the ability to unhinge one’s jaw and ingest [...]

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A genteel afternoon

High tea. A name that evokes strong memories of a gentler, more leisurely, stately pace of life. Be it real or imagined: ideas gleaned from books, period films or real life experience; the phrase conjours images of lush green summers, sitting on the terrace, in the formal garden with wide brimmed straw hats, nibbling dainty [...]

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Twilight hawker market revisited

By now most would have read or heard about the overwhelming success of the first Twilight Hawker Market, a part of the Eat Drink Perth festival. If you haven’t, now is a good time to catch up on some excellent write-ups and porn-y food pics by fellow Perth food bloggers: The Food Pornographer, Juji Chews, [...]

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March madness

I’m sure most people know or have a friend, who’s really nice but set in their ways and a little resistant to change. And meeting up again after having not seen them for a couple of years they surprise you by doing something completely out of character, but in a pleasant way? Well, that’s what [...]

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