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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.

Hel­vetica is a small bar, tucked away in an alley off Howard Way, a stones throw from St Georges Ter­race. Hel­vetica is best known as a whis­key bar, with around 100 dif­fer­ent whis­keys avail­able, as well as the usual sus­pects from Scot­land, Ire­land and the US, there are Japan­ese, Swedish, Aus­tralian and even an Indian whis­keys for your drink­ing pleasure.

Biv­ouac Canteen & Bar, Wil­liam St, Wed­nes­day 5 October

Biv­ouac has been open a couple of months now and has been tempt­ing me every time I walk up Wil­liam Street with their black­board pro­mot­ing try our addict­ive goat chops.

So I gave into tempta­tion today. …

Tak Chee House, Wil­liam Street
Tues­day 3 October

Is my reg­u­lar Tues­day lunch­time status update from me when I check in to the Tak Chee House on FourSquare.

So why do I choose Hain­anese Chicken Rice from the Tak Chee House, every Tuesday …