Archive for October, 2011

Ray’s Kit­chen has taken over from Maks Place on Wil­liam Street. Still has the same sig­nage, same tired decor, and an almost identical menu of Malaysian/Singaporean hawker dishes. While I ate spar­ingly at Maks Place, I really enjoyed their Roti and Mur­t­abak, but gen­er­ally found the noodle and rice dishes dis­ap­point­ing. So what did I order first time at Ray’s Kitchen …

Any­body who knows me, knows I am not a morn­ing per­son. So break­fast reviews will be a rare occurrence, …

The decor had been described to me as chic bor­dello, and that pretty much covered it. Large leather lounges, cush­ions galore, candles and art deco light­ing fit­tings with lamps turned down low. The nature of the build­ing, with a num­ber of small rooms con­ver­ted into the bar, led to a num­ber of inter­est­ing spaces and […]

Mela

Veget­able Biryani

Still recov­er­ing from a cold, I thought about try­ing to treat my taste buds to some subtle fla­vours for a few seconds, before decid­ing my taste buds need to taste real fla­vours and I made the trek up …

A windy and wet Octo­ber day, was a good excuse to enjoy my favour­ite winter meal, Raw Beef and Beef Ball Pho.

Hong Kong BBQ

There are only lim­ited options for lunch on Monday, so see­ing I was halfway down Fran­cis street, I might as well walk a little fur­ther to …

Not happy with the changes to Deli­cious, unsure about what book­mark ser­vice to switch to, well how about host­ing your own, with Semantic Scuttle? That was what happened with the State Library’s Fam­ily His­tory Book­marks, within 24 hours of the changes to Deli­cious and without prior pre­par­a­tion, I had a cus­tom­ised ver­sion of Semantic Scuttle […]

The fit­tings and fur­nish­ings describe Ezra Pound as a grunge bar. As does the serving mixed drinks and cock­tails in jam jars and long­neck (750ml) beer in brown paper bags. But at least they have upgraded from VB to Cas­cade long­necks, since my last visit.

Sai­gon Cafe is not my favour­ite Viet­namese eat­ing estab­lish­ment in North­bridge. I prefer Phong Vinh and Tra Vinh. How­ever, I do eat here reg­u­larly, as I have a couple of col­leagues who like eat­ing here, wine is only $8.50 a carafe and the food is good.

Golden King Bar­be­cue, Wil­liam St, Northbridge

Thursday. 6th October

I have a much shorter time avail­able for lunch than yesterday’s lux­uri­ous lunch. So I went for straight to Golden King Bar­be­cue, which is just around the corner from work.