Yum Cha, Parramatta Phoenix Restaurant

For me, yum cha (also known as Chinese breakfast, or “dim sum” to Americans) has always been about sharing, and the bigger the group the better. The more people at the table, the more plates you’re able to try and taste. There’s a theatre and extravagance in the experience and I remember being excited as a kid…

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Diner en Blanc Sydney 2016

So there’s this thing that a few of my friends have been going to for the last five years, le Dîner en Blanc. This (relatively) exclusive pop-up dinner themed all in white has lured me in year after year with its secret location – a location only revealed to its participants on the date of the event. Every year I…

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Hello world, indeed.

So, it’s been some time since I’ve written anything consistently. There was a time when I used to publish online thoughts regularly, all the way back in high school before I even knew what “blogging” even meant and way before the dawn of LiveJournal. I believe I even still have copies of these blogs on ye olde 3.5″…

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