Available from Bill’s Farm, Shop 17-18 Deli Hall (Queen Victoria Market)
Phone 03 9328 2003
I don’t know who Georgio is, but heck, he makes a damn fine ricotta! You can pick a tub of the good stuff at Bill’s Farm at Vic Market. The supply is haphazard at best, so if you see it, grab [...]
29 Block Place, Melbourne
Phoe 03 9654 6792
The Meat Pie is as iconic as they come as far as Australia’s National Dish is concerned. This hand held package of pastry, meat and gravy is as much lauded as it is loathed (body parts and gravy anyone?). Despite that, I reckon you can’t beat a good meat [...]
354 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Umm….where do I even begin with this?
Toffee Fruit Rod King is the newest addition to the mid-Lonsdale street scene. I was instantly taken by the name (wtf!?), the stoned-looking rosy-cheeked tai-chi’ing panda with fruity rod held proudly aloft, and the mouth-watering smell of bubbling toffee wafting up the street. It certainly got my olfactory attention.
The premise [...]
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 [...]
This is the Kit Kat Torokeru Zeitaku Kaoru Koucha, or “To be enchanted with fragrant black tea”. This deluxe version comes two to a box, in a thicker finger individually wrapped in foil. The taste? Well, I kind of like it! It’s quite strong and most certainly fragrant, with the heady aroma of a steaming cup [...]
EG’s Mum is the best. She spent two days last week preparing the individual elements of this Hokkien/Singaporean dish, Lor Mee, and we devoured it in one fell appreciative swoop.
The dish starts with a flavoursome stock which is thickened to a gravy consistency with cornstarch and egg. Then come the addins - thick yellow noodles, [...]
Meiji has once again provided a worthy candidate for my peculiar obsession with kooky Japanese sweets. Tasty Crunch are nuggets of Hokkaido milk chocolate studded with (the packaging doesn’t lie) salted french fry potato chips. And to be honest, they’re actually not that half bad!
I spotted this snack in the Great Eastern (Russell St) and Central [...]
EG’s parents took a recent trip to Hokkaido, and bought us back some local treats. So let me present one of the specialities of the region, Hori Corn Chocolate.
The gift box contains the same chocolate done two ways - in a long finger and a bite sized nugget.
It was a rather interesting snack consisting of [...]
