Last Saturday, Jac and I had lunch with my sister Juji and her boyfriend Jay at Makan2 cafe (357 Albany Highway, Victoria Park). I’d walked past this place before and heard about it from friends and other Perth food bloggers. We ordered at the counter and started with a round of drinks – Nescafe tarik […]
Jac didn’t need lunch again on Friday, so this is what I packed for myself. The savoury: oven-fried chicken wingettes, blanched broccolini, salad and sauteed mushrooms. The sweet: the same fruit combo of strawberries and papaya (that whole papaya we bought – we used the first of it on the fruit platters we made for […]
Last Thursday night, I met Jac after work and we went to Spencer Village for dinner. Jac was in the mood for Japanese. She got herself a set with salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki, California roll and salad. If it were me eating Japanese, I’d have needed steamed rice too, to eat with the chicken (for […]
We’re back! It was only a short getaway, but we really enjoyed spending the time together without thinking about our usual weekend chores, like grocery shopping and doing the dishes. We ate some delicious food – I’m in the process of uploading the photos and writing up the posts. In the meantime, I have plenty […]
Last Friday night, Jac and I went to Spencer Village (on Spencer Road, Thornlie, adjacent to Thornlie HJs and KFC, opposite the Thornlie Train Station) for dinner. We started with a shared large curry combination. Vegetables cooked in a lightly spiced coconut milk gravy (along the lines of sayur lodeh), chicken curry, lamb curry and […]
Jac made a chicken and vegetable (green beans, carrots and broccoli) balti curry last weekend, which she served with mini pappadams. I love this kind of curry sauce, with an oniony and tomatoey base. It’s fragrant and spicy without blowing your head off (though of course if you wanted it super hot you could simply […]
Back to my whinge about weekends not being long enough, we ended up spending most of last Saturday shopping. And not even fun shopping, like for DVDs, books, electrical appliances or gadgets (well, that’s fun shopping to me!). It was all groceries and household item (toilet paper, laundry detergent) shopping. Needing some food to give [&helli…
We went to the Save the Children Book Sale in South Perth yesterday morning. Jac was rather pleased – she scored loads of cook books for $68 – most books were 50 cents or $1, a few *special* ones for $2 – $3. I didn’t make any thrilling finds for myself, but in the $11 […]
We had dinner at Spencer Village in Thornlie on Wednesday evening. Jac had rice paper rolls (a serve of four big rolls for AU$6.00) from the Vietnamese stall. There was prawn (which you can clearly see in the photo) and sliced roast pork in them, as well as the usual things – vermicelli, mint, coriander […]
The potato bake is in the oven and I can hear the sausages sizzling in the pan – yum! I can’t wait for dinner, even though I absolutely stuffed my face with the last of the bolognaise on a big bowl of rice at lunch time! Monday: a cold and rainy day, and on rainy […]