Dragon fruit to the right. Fresh off the plane, I haven’t quite got my street food legs yet. Off for a Thai instead at Chivit Thai ( 130 Ph Wat Bo, Siem Reap 012 830 761) set is a wooden pavillion and garden. Complimentory spring rolls, a scorching green papaya salad ( I asked for hot) and fish cakes in dipping sauce. The most interesting dish was squid served with egg yolks. That’s solid yellow half yolks. The tiny squid […]
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Only in Sydney…
Ed, we’re in Syd about to eat at Garfish in Manly. They have a very innovative booking system – reminscent of Dan Murphy’s famous check out process – that I think you should invite opinion on from your readers. You can’t book, but they put you on a list and call you within 30 mins of your desired eating time to confirm your table…only in Sydney…
Last of Gordon Ramsay for this year
Gordon Ramsay: “Ladies, I’m 100% real, there’s no need to pinch quite THAT hard!” Ellie the Kitchen Wench received a pack of Monsieur Truffe raspberry truffles for her winning entry (above) to my Gordon Ramsay caption competition. I think she liked them. She says: “…oh lordy, I don’t think that taking a bite of chocolate has ever made me whimper before…” Food fascist 1. No more Gordon Ramsay this year please 2. Enough of Monsieur Truffe. Gorged on 15 yesterday
We need your menu inspiration for modern artist
Julie Poulson is looking for inspiration Inflation is the bain of artist Julie Poulson’s life; pie and coke now costs $4.80. Nevertheless she is beavering away creating works for her exhibition in Cairns opening on 9 March. Her current work is ” Mango cheeks $14 a box” is taken from roughly painted roadside signs, printed, painted and assembled through stitching. Her work Hot Dog Fries is hung in the modern Italian restaurant Vivos in Palm Cove in far north Queensland. […]
ENJOY THIS … BUT READ THE FINE PRINT IN YOUR TRAVEL INSURANCE POLICY BEFORE YOU GO – DON’T FORGET TO PACK THE POLICY
By Ed Charles COVER STORY It pays to read the fine print of your travel insurance policy carefully, Ed Charles writes THE air tickets are paid for. The boutique hotel and spa resort is booked. And the designer label luggage is packed. But have you bothered to check whether you have the right level of cover for that once-in-a-lifetime holiday? The likelihood is not, as illustrated by the number of complaints going before the Insurance Ombudsman, Sam Parrino. He says […]
Wagyu lunch: better late than never
The hands on approach with Wagyu I was invited back to a wagyu lunch at Jamon (3 Murphy St, South Yarra, Vic 3141 +61 3 9804 5710) by the chef and owner Charles a couple of months ago and should have posted this earlier. His point, which I wrote about for The Australian’s Indulgence section, was that wagyu is not some generic meat; it should as with other meats be appreciated by the cut. The Australian’s story says it all. […]
The great anchovy debate
Spot the Ortiz anchovy Jak simply asked the deli for a tin of anchovies. Dumbfounded by the cost she paid the extra $15.75 and brought them home slightly perplexed. I was mildly interested having been following the debate between Neil and Rebecca on the expense and finer points of Ortiz anchovies. What amazes me about these beasts is that the cost of a tin in the market can vary by over $2 – that’s almost the cost of a regular […]
Car share schemes show road ahead
The business of sharing cars has taken off in Sydney and Melbourne, writes Ed Charles SOMETIMES you have just got to do it. Car share plan GoGet came into being when founders Bruce Jeffreys and Nic Lowe put their own cars — a ute and a diesel station wagon — into the first incarnation of their company, Newtown Carshare, which rents out cars by the hour. They secured a sponsored Volkswagen Polo from a local dealer and, with a dozen […]
Gingerboy: eating at $3.50 a minute
Great. Jak and I are out on a date. A nice slow meal in a hip new hawker food restaurant from Melbourne chef Teage Ezard, Gingerboy (27-29 Crossley Street Melbourne 3000 +61 3 9662 4200). Despite my vivid imagination painting a picture of various hawker stalls in a tropical courtyard, the sort of thing you find in Ho Chi Minh City, it’s a flashily decorated room down a cute Melbourne alleyway. Fairy lights wink from behind black bamboo cladding and […]