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Here's a photo slide show of my Thailand Adventures. Enjoy!

Met up with Karissa on Friday after work.   Initially we thought we'd use Entertainment Book vouchers so Karissa had pulled out two likely candidates from the book.  We decided on Time Out at Federation Square.

Nothing on the menu appealed though..then Karissa suggested Cafe La.  She's got an Advantage Club card that gives her a great discount off food at any restaurant in the Sofitel chain.  (Details too much to go into but sounds very worthwhile - I'm waiting for my application form from Karissa!)

Anyway we wander up to Collins St and up to the 35th floor.  You have to follow a corridor around from the lifts to finally end up at the entrance to Cafe La - I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this.   Kind of reminds me of when Alex and I went hunting for the entrance to Yu-u, if you know what I mean.

I've been meaning to add a blog post on the dinner that we had on Sunday evening so that I remember to use the menu again. 

The dinner centred around some pre-made curry pastes (yes, I can imagine the gasps of horror now *grin*) that Mum's been raving about and which I decided to try out the weekend before last. 

The paste was so good that I bought it again plus its cousin.

Hence the following menu:

Rice paper rolls
Beef rendang
Prawn sambal
Stir fried chai sim with oyster sauce
Silken tofu with spicy braised chicken & mushroom sauce

Uncle Leo & Aunty Mandy dropped by on the way back from Perth to Sydney which meant numerous excuses for family eats sessions, both at home and further afield. 

Below is Uncle Leo catching Dad and Aunty Mandy in the serious business of assessing persimmons in Springvale.  (To be followed not long after by one of aforementioned family eat sessions.)  Dad gave me some specimens from his haul so this pic has lots of juicy and honey-sweet associations.  Mmmm..persimmons...drool..

..making meals like these.."  to quote Matt from Abstract Gourmet

Oh it's so true!  But luckily for me, this blog is all about me bwahaha...so you get to see it whether it's professional, worthy etc or not :-)

So, what shall I rave about today?  Well, there's what happened last weekend, which was a couple of desserts for a friend's housewarming dinner.  Just an intimate dinner for 6.

Dessert 1:  Orange jelly with fruit salad (yummy, dairy free and dead easy).   I know, "I feel like a bit of a fraud making meals like these.."  Touche! 

In years to come I'll be able to look back and see the exact day that  first tasted feijoas.  Probably not important to 99% of you who might be reading this, but I want to always remember this cos it's not often that you meet an entirely new fruit or vegetable (or whatever, for that matter).  I wish it happened more often but then, there's a lot of things I do wish for heheh...

This was offered by Catherine and Nigel, which made it especially nice because there's nothing like being introduced to something by people who know what it ought to be like.  Thanks guys!

I do love my Malaysian food roots.  By the way, as per previous post, I'm linking to this post because the promotion thingo isn't cooperating. 

But this time it's for the benefit of my sweet mum-in-law who recently visited Malaysia but didn't get the opportunity to taste much of the real hawker food she had been craving.  I know she'll enjoy the numerous photos and culinary travels in EatingAsia ..

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hey ML...tried to 'promote' this article out of the feed onto my front page so it would be easily find-able for you guys...but the back-end is refusing to cooperate with me.  So here we are with the stone-age version: Cheap and authentic Malaysian eateries in London as recommended by Banana Tikka Masala!

My second entry to EatStuff's Weekend Cat Blogging event.. which is slightly on cloud 9 at the moment as Casey's just proposed to Clare in a romantic beach & restaurant event..full marks Casey!!

So, in honour of the happy couple...this WCB entry is titled:

How to treat your beloved...with love from Indie & Neo..

Cultivate being blissed out just by being together...

Tonight (or more correctly, last night) was a special family & friends dinner with Cici, Yih Sing koko, Steven, Matthew, Amy, Andre, Euge, Brendan, Yeow Cheen, Kylie, Hanna, Joshua (18months), Kar Miau, Cyril, Kirsten, Kathleen, Bee Ling cici, Sa-Ku, Sa-Kim, Si-Ku, Mum and Dad (and me, of course).

Here we are:




Si-Ku has consented to show us all how to make that tricky cake, the pandan-flavoured chiffon cake.  Foodie.tv was well prepared for this event and video-ed it all...but that's another post for another day.  First came DINNER.