Zoe’s 2nd birthday party was heaps of fun. Friends, family and lots of kids got together for a celebration over brunch and bubbles. Yes, bubbles! Chasing a bubble Thanks to the two bubble blowers Angela and Juji, the kids had a great time chasing bubbles around the gazebo. It got a bit chaotic for a […]
A couple of years ago at a work Christmas function, I fell in love with chocolate con churros – Spanish-style doughnuts served with melted chocolate for dipping. I’ve been craving chocolate con churros ever since. I’ve been meaning to check out Chocolateria San Churro, fondly known as San Churro, ever since friends told me they [&…
Jac had been craving oysters and seafood for some time, and so to celebrate her birthday last month, Jac, Juji, Jay and I went to Kailis Brothers Fish Cafe in Leederville for a seafood dinner. The restaurant was busy and well-staffed. There was a mouthwatering aroma of garlic in the air, and glorious sights all […]
Just before new year, my sister Juji and her boyfriend Jay came over for a homemade hamburger dinner. I was really looking forward to this – we hadn’t made burgers at home in a while. Homemade burger with cheese and bacon, my burger with Swiss cheese Juji made big beef patties, which we cooked in […]
We visited relatives for Chinese New Year a couple of weekends ago. First, we went had breakfast with Aunties S and J. A big pot of rice porridge (we call it chok, some call it congee) awaited us. Juji helped spoon porridge into individual bowls. The porridge was full of plump homemade pork balls and […]
My family got together for a Chinese New Year lunch at my parents’ home a couple of weekends ago. We started the meal with yee sang, a Chinese raw fish salad (“yee” means “fish”, “sang” means “raw”). Many Malaysian Chinese families eat yee sang at Chinese New Year as it symbolises prosperity, ab…
A few days after Christmas we met up with my sister Juji and her boyfriend Jay to have lunch in Northbridge before going to the Art Gallery of Western Australia to catch the Peggy Guggenheim exhibition, which ends on 31 January. We had planned to go to Tak Chee House but were disappointed to discover […]
A few weeks before Christmas, I had two breakfasts at Cravings Cafe in East Perth. First, workmate J and I both had scrambled eggs on toast (AU$10, add $1 for cheesy scrambled), washed down with freshly squeezed orange juice (AU$6.50). The orange juice was indeed freshly squeezed to order, chilled with ice cubes and was […]
We had Jac’s niece and nephew over for an afternoon, and Jac thought it would be fun to have afternoon tea. She baked scones and assembled other sweet and savoury goodies, made frothy cold chocolate milk for the kids and a pot of English breakfast tea for her and me. Afternoon tea at home: sausage […]
I’m still working through a backlog of posts – this one is from the end of October, before we went to Canberra – Jac’s niece Savannah’s birthday lunch. I’d recently bought Jac a Sunbeam Avalanche ice shaver – she loves frozen ice treats. Since it was such a hot day we thought it would be […]