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Cairns is well known for attracting tourists from all over the world, especially Japan. It is also my hometown and although I have fond memories of the place, it’s not the greatest place for foodies. However, on a recent short trip back home, I came across this small restaurant that was not there before called [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Colourful Cookies
July 26th, 2011 
pepper I was invited to a little girl’s birthday party on the weekend and I was asked by her mum to bring something colourful to the party. I pondered over what I could bring – maybe some colouring pens and picture books for the kids to draw, maybe some balloons for the party or how about [...]
Posted in General, Recipes 
Tags: allowing for spreading, baking paper, Better Basics with fast, caster sugar, coloured chocolate button, colourful cookies, dough forms, egg and vanilla, Fold in flour, little girl’s birthday party, milk, Mini M&M, Preheat oven, Press flat, Press trays, pure icing sugar, self-raising flour, unsalted butter, vallina extract 
1 Comment »Glamorous Wok
July 19th, 2011 pepper 
I’ve been reading about this restaurant on this blog Hungry-Kittens and JayJayne.com last week. There are a number of good and bad reviews about Glamorous Wok, with over 50% of liking it on Urbanspoon. So, we decided we had to try it out ourselves to decide whether it is any good.
Posted in General, Restaurants Tags: BBQ Pork Ribs, Crystal Chicken with Garlic Soy Sauce and Sesame Paste, firm, Glamorous Wok, Gold & Silver Eggs with Loofah, moist, Pork intestine soup with Chinese pickles, shiny menus, soft, soggy, sour and Spicy flavour, Sour and Spicy Pork intestine, tender, the skin and chicken meat, urbanspoon Comments OffSquid two ways
July 16th, 2011 Salt One of my mates has just recently bought a boat and took me out to the bay for a bit of squid fishing. It must’ve been my bad day of something because I couldn’t manage to catch any while the others caught one after another. By the end of the afternoon, we had enough for [...]
Japanese curry (chicken) with rice
July 12th, 2011 pepper This year, June has been recorded as the coldest winter month in Australian for last 10 years. On these cold nights, Japanese curry is the quintessential choice for dinner at my place because it’s easy to make and can be ready in 20 minutes. Curry is one of most popular dishes in Japan (believe or [...]
Posted in Recipes Tags: Asian food section, Australian grocery stores, Golden Curry Series, Hot and Extra Hot for cooking, instant curry roux, Japanese curry, Japanese curry chicken with rice, Medium Hot, Mild, most popular dishes, popular food brand in Japan, ready in 20 minutes, S&B Foods, the quintessential choice 2 Comments »Sugo Mi Bistro / Pizzeria
July 9th, 2011 Salt 
This rather small restaurant located in Bulimba has been regarded by many people as having the best pizza in Brisbane, and has won an award to back this up. I assumed this place would be very busy so when I rang up at 6pm on a Friday night to see if there were any free [...]
Gourmetblog iPhone/iPad App
July 7th, 2011 pepper I always want to have an iphone app for my blog, however, I don’t know how to write it at all. Today, I found this app in Apple store – Bloapp It helps me to create my own iphone app in less than 5 mins and the best thing is, it is absolutely free. I downloaded Bloapp [...]
