Skip to content

Category Archives: Recipes

Dragon Fish Two Ways - Puffy Fish Surprise and the Nicest Fish Sticks

I’ve been spending time with William Wang, a local chef at a hotel. He has the capacity to transform what’s pictured above into what’s pictured below. Seafood or Hai Xian, literally meaning “sea fresh,” is the constant fare along the coast and freshness is of the uptmost importance. Seasonal cooking [...]

Little islands of meat frying in a shallow sea of oil - A street seekh kebab recipe

This might be some of the most satisfying street food I’ve had in a long time. The seekh kebab is commonly served in that unflattering long tube shape due to being on the kebab skewer for cooking. These guys said screw that, we’ll just fry it. That’s why I like these guys. [...]

Pakora - The Indian Deep Fried Onion

This is the onion ring, fritter, and pancake menage a trois love child. Common in chip shops in England and with chai in Mumbai, which rhymes. Herein there will be no more rhyming, but there will be onion.

Bananas

Banana Raita Recipe

The Food Van

Certain vehicles signal food, and certain ones do not. A formula one race car might be the farthest from eating, signalling instead an immediate relation to speed and anything else as fun as going that fast, something like sex.
However, other vehicles seem to be made for food, or in this case made for food, [...]

Normans Kitchen is a Cabinet

Every now and then I come across a kitchen that perfectly personifies the person that uses it. Norman’s kitchen is one of them.
It sits in blackwood, outside of Melbourne. Norman’s kitchen is as much a vault of the antique, otherworldly, and authentic as the rest of Norman’s house; as Norman himself for that [...]

Tomato

It’s best to get into the habit of looking at things in the market and begin thinking of how you can transform them into something, something like ketchup.