Osaka and Melbourne became sister cities in 1978, which was our towns first sister-city relationship. So I probably shouldn’t have been surprised to stumble across Melbourne House restaurant in downtown Osaka (right next to the Aquarium and Ferris Wheel). Specialities of the house included Australian Beef, and they even had VB! Impressive.
On a side note, be sure to catch [...]
241 Victoria Street, Richmond
Phone 03 9416 1889
Prompted by a review over at where’s the beef, I decided to drag this post from the depths of my drafts and put some words to the photos (only 70 odd drafts to go!).
Anyway, just like Claire and Michael, EG and I were similarly confused at the emptiness of [...]
275 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Phone (03) 9663 7994
Prompted by Claire over at the fabulously revamped Melbourne Gastronome, I’ve dragged this post out of my drafts to finally see the light of day (nb. I have been somewhat remiss in blogging due to life getting in the way of things. But rest assured, I have still been [...]
Cart 123, 163 Commerical Road, South Yarra
Phone 0414 724 578
When I worked in Prahran a few years back, one of my all-time favourite lunches was grabbing a quick falafel from the Falafel Man (not his name, just what I call him) at the Prahran Market. On a recent trip back to my old stomping [...]
Top tier: Japanese short grain rice sprinkled with roasted black sesame seeds, umeboshi plum.
Bottom tier: Edamame in their pods, cherry tomatoes, sauted carrot and burdock kinpira, sliced and steamed broccoli stems, mini hamburg sitting on top of sauted spinach leaves with a teriyaki onion sauce.
I think this has been my favourite bento so far!
When I [...]
Bento No.3, and I’m getting into the swing of it. This is fun!
Top tier: Japanese Short Grain rice spiked with a multigrain mix (see note below), home-made shiso tamago (Japanese omelette rolled with shiso leaf)
Bottom tier: steamed broccoli florets, cherry tomatoes, slices of Mr.Lee’s Kitchen Savoury Pressed Tofu, simmered kaboucha (pumpkin), shelled edamame, umeboshi plum.
In [...]
Found this weird little treat at Greater Eastern on Russell St. It is a sweet and soft, delicious tasting (well, it says so on the pack!) potato cream maccha omelette. While the cream was obviously sweet, it was definitely potato flavoured which was a wee bit disconcerting. It felt like I was eating a [...]
A few weeks ago EG and I had an extremely memorable long weekend away in the Victorian Alpine region. Memorable not only for the amazing food we ate, wine we drank, place we stayed at and views we admired. But memorable for the fact that EG proposed! Yes…that’s right. I am the soon-to-be Mrs.Gourmand!
But [...]
I love dabbling in unfamiliar culinary territory, so when I saw this recipe over at Smell & Taste are my memory, I just had to try it. The recipe uses two ingredients I hadn’t used before, taucheo (fermented soy beans) and black fungus.
Fermented soy beans are a pungently aromatic ingredient that is generally used [...]
I took a bit of a different tack with my second bento, preparing the nori wrapped chicken cakes the night before (which took about 10 minutes). Then in the morning all I had to do was cook the rice, steam the greens, simmer steam the pumpkin with a bit of water, mirin and shoyu, cut [...]
