San Francisco, Part 3
My San Francisco adventures continue: breakfast in Chinatown, checking out the Ferry Building, the sea lions of Pier 39, In-N-Out Burger, Fisherman's Wharf and dinner with strangers at House of Nanking.
Posts Tagged ‘rice porridge’
Tian Tian and Zhen Zhen, Maxwell Food Centre, Singapore
World famous chicken rice and a local favourite rice porridge.
Hawkers Cafe, Winthrop
A good Malaysian or Singaporean hawker restaurant instantly makes a shopping centre a better place.
U & I Cafe, Northbridge
A 24-hour pho place has moved in at one of Northbridge's most famous corners. It should easily be a roaring, slurpalicious success. Is it?
Rice porridge (chok) with oyster sauce pork
Jac bought some pork ribs and made pork rice porridge (chok, rice congee, jook) for dinner – I was thrilled, as I love rice porridge! It’s perfect for a cold wintery day as well as being one of my all-time comforting meals (in any weather or temperature). She even fried up chopped garlic for garnish. […]
Three meals from Spencer Village
LunchWhen I have a hainan chicken rice craving, I usually have Penang Cuisine’s chicken rice. On this occasion I decided to give the Straits Cuisine stall’s hainan chicken rice a go. The verdict? Not bad at all! The rice wasn’t as garlicky as Penang Cuisine’s (I love really garlicky chicken rice!), but it had a […]
Friday night dinner at Spencer Village
At Spencer Village (Spencer Road Shopping Centre, Thornlie) recently, Jac had a teriyaki fish salad from the Japanese stall. It’s very nice, but a very small meal indeed. I knew she’d need something else… I had been craving chee cheong fun (fresh rice flour roll) and yong tow foo (stuffed beancurd and vegetables) from Fook [&helli…
Bento prep and rice porridge
Last Sunday afternoon, Jac did a little cooking for our bento lunches. I’d seen this recipe for panfried lemon chicken nuggets at Just Bento, which has become one of my favourite bento blogs to visit. I thought the chicken sounded delicious, and Jac asked me to print it out so she could give it a […]
Family breaky
This morning we had breakfast at my parents’ place. My mum had invited my sister jl over for breakfast before she flew back to Sydney, and then Mum decided to invite everyone else as well and have a big family breaky. And big it certainly was! One of my aunts brought along almond croissants. I […]