Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Rockpool Restaurant & The Power of Twitter (part 2)

Read the first part here. Sometime a go I went to a Michelin star restaurant, The Kitchin, in Edinburgh. The restaurant was awarded one Michelin star for excellence in 2007, and the chef, Tom Kitchin, is the youngest ever Scottish Chef proprietor to receive one. The list of awards the restaurant has been collecting is [...]

Australia, Food, Tech & Web March 21, 2011 9:00 am 1 Comment

Rockpool Restaurant & The Power of Twitter (part 1)

Rockpool, 2010 best restaurant in Sydney according to Time Out magazine, which also scored 3 gongs (best new restaurant of the year, wine list of the year, and maitre d’ of the year) from 2010 Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards, has just opened its Perth restaurant end of last year. Excited to try one of [...]

Australia, Food March 14, 2011 7:00 am 2 Comments

Haggis is English?

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

Food August 7, 2009 1:00 am 2 Comments

Cullen Skink

I haven’t written about Scottish food for a quite long time. Not because I am sulking when some blogger alluded me as blog traffic seeker by posting unworthy thread like food, but because I haven’t tried something new for a long time. But since the weather is wild outside, and it’s the first time we [...]

Food October 4, 2008 12:19 pm 5 Comments

One More Beer, Please

Apparently the sentence above is really important and must be translated into 50 languages. Forget how to say please and thank you, don’t bother to learn to ask for a direction in a local lingo, as long as you can ask for one more beer in a strange place, you’d be fine, and you’d charm [...]

Being Expat, Food June 8, 2008 8:16 am 5 Comments

Feel Phenomenal

Scottish version of the famous Rudyard Kipling’s “If” poem: If you can bounce in six inch heels all night And still walk home in your bare feet If you can keep two passions burning bright And see there`s still some romance in defeat If you can hit a foreign beach without a tan Or brave [...]

Food June 3, 2008 7:58 am 5 Comments

Cranachan Is…

… Another Scottish dessert. Traditionally served during harvest time in summer but now can be found everywhere, it is made from a mixture of whipped cream (lots of it), whiskey, honey and fresh raspberries topped with toasted oatmeal. The dessert is very light, not too sweet, beautiful to serve, easy to make, and a mixture [...]

Food, Scotland, UK May 17, 2008 10:15 am 6 Comments

Haggis, Black Pudding, White Pudding

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

Food April 8, 2008 7:34 am 7 Comments

Tunnock’s Teacake and Tablet

I blame Scotland for my weight gain. This country seems to have endless collection of sweets and savouries, and none of them are healthy! It seems that all sin ingredients are mixed together to create devilish, high calorie deserts. I thought STP and deep fried Mars bar are the only bad sweets, but everyday I [...]

Food March 28, 2008 8:45 pm 8 Comments

Shortbread, Oatcake, and Rowie

Shortbread is a Scottish-origin biscuit which is made from white sugar, a lot of butter, and plain white flour. These sweet cookies are usually served with tea (hot tea, I may have to add, since for Asians tea sometimes is served cold) in the afternoon, or for a snack. Due to its popular demand, shortbread [...]

Food March 3, 2008 4:58 pm 2 Comments
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