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Do not judge a book by it’s cover

Walk­ing down James street return­ing from a team lunch last week, I noticed a menu in a win­dow stat­ing Malay­sian Food, not know­ing there was even a res­taur­ant there, I noted noth­ing other than the loc­a­tion vow­ing to return later as I really enjoy good malay­sian food.

On return I found a little non­des­cript cafe in front of a com­bin­a­tion pool hall/karaoke space. Not deterred, I checked the menu on the win­dow out, it was rather long and had all the usual malaysian/singaporean food I adore #8230;

We need a bet­ter plan B

We usu­ally have a team lunch on Fri­day. Dim Sum is one of our favour­ites and Dragon Sea­food Res­taur­ant is the pre­ferred place. We turned up at Dragon Sea­food Res­taur­ant at 12:30 and the queue was out the door. So we needed an altern­at­ive, one team mem­ber who lives nearby sug­ges­ted Old Shang­hai Food Court …

After the Singa­por­ean Style Fish epis­ode, I decided to return to Hoka Res­taur­ant to see if there was some­thing on the menu that excited my taste buds. I ordered as I was get­ting seated and two minutes later, a reg­u­lar Chilli Chicken and rice was on my table. Chilli Chicken con­sisted of chicken, cap­sicum, baby sweetcorn, […]

Last time I vis­ited Ray’s Kit­chen, I was dis­ap­poin­ted. I returned as a hungry cyc­list look­ing to con­sume a roti or two. I pre­vi­ously enjoyed roti from Mak’s Place, before it changed hands and became Ray’s Kit­chen and on my last visit here the roti served on the next table looked and smelt great. After being spoilt […]

A group of friends meet for lunch in the CBD between Christ­mas and New Year. Sas­sel­las was selec­ted prob­ably as it was licensed. Which was a poor choice see­ing of the seven, only two of drank alco­hol, the rest were far more respons­ible than me …

I was won­der­ing down Wil­liam Street, one lunch­time won­der­ing what to eat, when I spot­ted Hoka’s lunch time spe­cial list which included Singa­por­ean Style Fish & Rice. Intrigued, as I never heard of Singa­por­ean Style Fish before, I walked in as a hungry cyc­list and ordered a large Singa­por­ean Style Fish & Rice for $10.

aka les­sons in Tequila

My last visit to the George had the bar man­ager con­vince me to start drink­ing rum, as he said he had a far bet­ter dark rum selec­tion than single malts. He was a bad influ­ence on me and I now reg­u­larly drink and appre­ci­ate qual­ity dark rum. He also said next time we will get you drink­ing tequila.

So this visit, I decided to take him up on the offer and try tequila. Unfortunately …

Sometimes I don’t realise I lucky I am

I had to head to West Perth for an appoint­ment and took the oppor­tun­ity to catch up with a couple of friends for lunch. The eat­ing estab­lish­ment of choice was Tim’s Thai, which soun­ded ideal for a change in cuisine as I have yet to find a Thai res­taur­ant in North­bridge I enjoy eat­ing at.

The lunch­time menu, was typ­ical gen­eric south east asian noodle house. …

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 …