Traditional culture Cantonese food :Yum cha

Yum cha is a southern (mainly Hong Kong) Chinese style morning or afternoon tea, which involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum small dishes (steamed, fried or baked sweets). There are various ways in which the food can be served. In highly patronized restaurants, staff will commonly wheel around heated trolleys serving small yum cha dishes that have been prepared in advance in the kitchen; this manner allows customers receive hot, fresh items quickly. In less busy places, ordering dim sum will typically involve marking an order sheet with the desired quantity of items to be ordered; this practice eliminates unnecessary preparation of dishes which may otherwise not be ordered.

Sushi Zento

Trying Sushi Zento for the very first time!!!!! :)

Last year, I went back to Malaysia during my semester break. My family and I went to this Japanese restaurant to celebrate my brother's birthday. Had a lot of great food here and i can't wait to share it with you guys!!! 

COLD GREEN TEA NOODLE

This is my favorite cold noodle dish, cold green tea noodle. the one thing that's really cool about this noodle is that they serve it with ice. The noodles are being placed on top of some small ice cube when serving to the customer. It is usually serve with a dipping sauce on the side and some seaweed slices, sesame on top of the noodle. Before eating the noodle, you need to dip it in the dipping sauce. The dipping sauce taste a bit salty, so that when you dip the noodles in the dipping sauce, it adds up a salty flavor to the cold noodles and makes it more delicious. 

SUSHI

This is the bbq sea eel sushi. The sea eel is grilled and wrapped around the rice roll and there are also some cucumber and Japanese egg in the rice roll. I really like the sauce of the grilled sea eel, it tastes sweet and a bit of saltyness. I think that you should try it if you have a chance :)

SASHIMI

These are some raw salmons and other raw fishes. The raw fish will usually be served either with the rice or by itself. I like dipping the raw fish in the soya sauce while eating sashimi because it helps to get rid of the fishy taste of the  raw fish. Besides, I also like eating it with the wasabi.

- Ivy Lee

Taiwanese cuisine

Today, I would like to introduce delicious taiwanese food for u guys.
Taiwanese cuisine itself is usually associated with great influence from mid to southern provinces of Mainland China, especially from the province of Fujian. Meanwhile, a notable Japanese influence also exists due to the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
The following are certain typical dishes:

A flat, clam-shaped steamed white bun with soy sauce braised porkbelly, picked mustard vegetables, peanut powder, sugar, and cilantro inside.  Chewy omelette made with eggs, oysters, tapioca starch and Garland chrysanthemum leaves. It has a soft, sticky texture, and is eaten with a sweet and mildly spicy sauce, topped with cilantro. This dish is very common in night markets as it is the most popular snack in Taiwan. Minced, cubed, or ground fatty pork, stewed in soy sauce and spices, then served on rice. A grilled Taiwanese pork sausage, salty, sticky rice sausage. Usually wrapped with garlic and basil. Customer can also choose the flavor they want, such as black pepper, garlic, chili, butter, and chocolate. A Taiwanese snack, common in night market. A chicken dish which literally translates as "three cups chicken", named because the sauce is made of a cup of rice wine, a cup of sesame oil, and a cup of soy sauce. Alternatively, the sauce can also be made of a cup each of rice wine, sugar, and soy sauce.

Steamed aburaage tofu stuffed with cooked cellophane noodles and covered with surimi.   --Starry(Wenqing Wang)

Bistro Nguyen's - Vietnamese Restaurant in Canberra Review

                                  Bistro Nguyen's Restaurant

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On my trip to Canberra recently, I have the chance to try out the food at this new Vietnamese restaurant. Bistro Nguyen's restaurant is located at 78-80 Alinga St, Canberra which is close to Jolimont Centre and right opposite of a Chinese restaurant - Red Chilli Sichuan.

The exterior of the restaurant is very clean, spacious and well organized which is a very good impression for other customers as well as me.

The interior of  the restaurant remind me of those Vietnamese restaurants that I used to go to when I was back in Viet Nam. For instant, there are 2 very old motorcycles model put at 2 sides of the restaurant which was used by many Vietnamese back in the old time but not much now .




The way the restaurant is decorated make you feel very relaxing as well as peaceful. For example, the graffiti painted on the wall of the restaurant show some "typical" Vietnamese things . Moreover, since the employees working here are all Vietnamese, you can feel the friendliness and welcoming atmosphere in the restaurant.

I ordered a "crispy chicken tomato rice" dish. As a Vietnamese myself, I found this dish very tasty and really alike to the one that I had in Viet Nam. The fish sauce is perfect and the chicken is well-done.

Overall, Bistro Nguyen's restaurant is a very cheap and tasty Vietnamese restaurant to go to when you visit Canberra and I, myself, have recommended it to my friends.




P/s: I rate this restaurant 8 out of 10 for my personal enjoyment.
-Son

HOME MEAL

Today's post is about Korean style home meal. in the past when we have house guest or in special day, they used to serve these foods. King used to have this meal everyday. Soup, hotpot, seasonal fish, Kimchi, and steamed meat was food they always serve. Other side dishes were changed depends on weather and season. every ingredients in the tables were given by farmer and ordinary people to tribute. 

It is not great as the king's meal but we have our own home meal as well. 

This is Korean home meal. The side dishes are vary depends on region but the basic dish are same. Basic side dishes can be a soup, rice, and Kimchi. Base these side dishes they add fish, marinated meat, hotpot, seaweed and so on. We can have this kind of table in Korean tradition home meal restaurant or some of people are still cook it at home as well. This food takes much times and effort to cook, so people cook like this in special occasion to people they love.           
                                                          

Finally this table is everyday bases meal. it includes soup, rice, vegetables, Kimchi, one main dishes and so on. This is not a fancy table as above but this is the meal Korean have everyday. This meal calls 'Mum's food'. 

It is also the most missed food among every other delicious food. 

This is my recommend Korean food! try yourself :) 

Yum food in Cabramatta

Good Vietnamese restaurant in Cabramatta. Friendly people, lovely food :) Will probably visit there again!!!  

Pho ( Beef Noodle Soup)

Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup consisting of broth, rice noodle, some herbs and usually served with beef.

I personally thinks that the soup taste slightly sweet. Vietnamese usually likes to add some chili sauce and sweet sauce in their soup before eating, but I like adding it with some lime juice to make the soup taste sour.

Papaya Salad

The salad is serves with green papaya(unripe papaya), prawns, peanuts and other ingredients.

This salad really makes my mouth watering. They use lime juice and mix it with some sugar as the dressing for the salad. Therefore, it tastes sweet and sour. I love the way they mixed it with the peanuts because it makes the texture of the salad more crunchy.

Rice Paper Roll

It usually serves with beef slices, cucumber , pork and other ingredients. All of the ingredients will be wrapped in a rice paper and ready for 
serve.

This is the picture of the ingredients that we used to wrap it in the rice paper. I really have fun while wrapping our own rice paper roll. Lastly, you dip it in a special sauce and you're ready to eat.

Durian Blended


This is a durian blended. Durian is a kind of fruit that has a really strong smell. Not everyone likes the smell of durian, you will love it if you likes the smell but if you don't, you will feel disgust.

I love the durian blended because I'm a really big fan of durian. This drink doesn't looks appealing but it tasted really good. It actually tasted better than i thought! I will recommend you to try this drink if you ever visit a Vietnamese restaurant that sells this drink.









- Ivy Lee

Yum food in Kiama

Yesterday, I went to Kiama with my friend. It is a peaceful township, which is famous for its main tourist attractions--blowhole and lighthouse. At the end of our journey, we had a big big brunch. There are numerous alfresco cafes and restaurants and we chose one randomly. The cafe we chose has wonderful environment and excellent food. I tried seafood plate, including a grilled barramundi, beer battered chips and fresh salad. Meanwhile, my friend ordered chicken & avocado crepes, which contains the tender chicken breast in a creamy sauce topped with avocado and salad. Although we all full after brunch, we still had a nice ice cream as a dessert！Y(^_^)Y

 Seafood plate

Chicken & avocado crepes

 Strawberry & coconut ice cream

    --Starry(Wenqing WANG)