Herro dear friends :)
To celebrate the 2 year anniversary of this blog, surviving through two 6-month hibernations (yep.. hasn't been updated for a while) and a semi-evolution into a travel blog, I have organised a party pulled together a blog index to cap off what has been happening here at foodchaser HQ
Click around to see things explode
Europe: what happened in.....
barcelona, spain
4 months of london (thanks ms secretary)
oktoberfest, munich
venice (not so nice)
la tomatina II, le chateau de versaille
valencia, spain, la tomatina I
london & the English Breakfast, hello valencia
exploring London streets, Indian cuisine
hostel breakfast in london
On the plane to europe (taipei airport)
Omg have to pack for europe list
To do List in europe
To do List in london
To eat List in sydney
Darling Harbour - Chinta Ria Malaysian
Haymarket - Saint Honore Bun Shop
Haymarket - Emperor's Garden Yum Cha
Haymarket - Ajisen Ramen
Haymarket - Satang Thai
Haymarket - Ramen-Kan Japanese
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Haymarket - Cafe Joy's Iced Durian
Haymarket - KFC Tower Burger (with Hash Brown)
Capitol Square - Bangkok Thai Restaurant
Capitol Square - Passionflower Dessert Cafe I
Capitol Square - Passionflower Dessert Cafe II
Liverpool St - Norita Dessert Cafe
Pavilion - Lee's Malaysian
Town Hall - White Apple Dessert Cafe
Town Hall - Nazimi Japanese (behind QVB)
Town Hall - Ichiban Boshi I (TGV)
Town Hall - Ichiban Boshi II (TGV)
Town Hall - Ichiban Boshi III (TGV)
Town Hall - Jimmy's Recipe Malaysian (TGV)
Sussex St - Regal Yum Cha Restaurant
Sussex St - Sushi Rio Japanese Sushi Train
Sussex St - Kobow Korean BBQ Restaurant
Pitt St - Chung Jin Dong Korean Restaurant
Pitt St - Ho's Dim Sim Kitchen
The Rocks - Pancakes on the Rocks
World Square - Nonya Kueh at Miracle
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons II
Eveleigh - Carriageworks Cafe
Bondi I - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Bondi II - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Campsie - BreadTop Asian Bun Shop
Campsie - Korean Restaurant
Burwood - Gelatissimo Italian Cakes and Biscuits
Beverly Hills - Yummy Chinese Seafood
Leichhardt - Cafe Zizi Pancake Bar
Leichhardt - Glace Icecream & Sorbet
Norah Head - Dessert Buffet
Home - Cookieman Chocolate Passionfruit Cookies
Home - Fried Rice Dinner
Home - Delicious Mango Cheesecake Recipe
Home - Making Chinese New Year Sweets
Home - Boxes of Colourful Kueh
Home - Coconut and Pineapple Chinese Buns
Do you have a sweet tooth? Oh my
Haymarket - Cafe Joy's Iced Durian
Capitol Square - Passionflower Dessert Cafe I
Capitol Square - Passionflower Dessert Cafe II
Liverpool St - Norita Dessert Cafe
Town Hall - White Apple Dessert Cafe
The Rocks - Pancakes on the Rocks
World Square - Nonya Kueh at Miracle
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons II
Eveleigh - Carriageworks Cafe
Bondi I - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Bondi II - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Burwood - Gelatissimo Italian Cakes and Biscuits
Leichhardt - Cafe Zizi Pancake Bar
Leichhardt - Glace Icecream & Sorbet
Norah Head - Dessert Buffet
Home - Cookieman Chocolate Passionfruit Cookies
Home - Delicious Mango Cheesecake Recipe
Home - Making Chinese New Year Sweets
Home - Boxes of Colourful Kueh
Those are some mighty fine buns
Haymarket - Saint Honore Bun Shop
Haymarket - Barby's Bakery @ Market City
Haymarket - KFC Tower Burger (with Hash Brown)
Pitt St - Ho's Dim Sim Kitchen
The Rocks - Pancakes on the Rocks
World Square - Nonya Kueh at Miracle
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons
Balmain - Zumbo's Macarons II
Bondi I - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Bondi II - Gelato Bar Hungarian Pastries
Campsie - BreadTop Asian Bun Shop
Burwood - Gelatissimo Italian Cakes and Biscuits
Home - Cookieman Chocolate Passionfruit Cookies
Home - Coconut and Pineapple Chinese Buns
It's the holidays! Doodles doodles doodles
It's getting hot in this meeting room
Accountant needs sleep
Fishy Philately (FISH FOR FAIL)
What is Auditing
No Face Likes Moon Cake
The Beatles (Watercolours, II and III)
Emily Wong turns 20 today drawing
The Wicked Beatles illustration
Vanora and Pikachu at Christmas
My friend Elizabeth, an illustration
Scans from Illustration Project (The Garden of Eden snake)
Scans from Illustration Project (Golden Fish/Mermaid)
Scans from Illustration Project (Patterned Apples)
Random Paint collage - digital colouring practice
Deviantart art trade - WIP I / WIP II / FINAL
My table - going back to old fashioned brushes
Photoshop doodle: I got pwned by tax law
It's Earth Hour! versus Iron Chef is on TV
Dreaming apple girl colouring practice
Gift art pikachu for my sister
gaiaonline art competition: avatar with pizza
Czeeq and the magic cupcake wand
Cool photo collections, mostly of food
Fruity Icy summery love photos
Delicious Food Photos - Cafe Bakery
Kseniya Simonova's Sand Animation
Deviantart Favourites Dump
Funny Gingerbread Men Photos
Yummy Pizza Photos
Yummy Donut Photos
Doll-sized Egg Tarts and Pastries Happy chinese new year photos
It's getting hot in this meeting room
Sushi Education - You're Eating Your Sushi All Wrong
How To Make Spaghetti when you don't got none
Merry (Peanut Butter) Christmas to All
It's Irresistably Tasty! I need my blogging mojo back
Peanut Butter and Vegemite Sandwich Day
Stress Management Classes
We got $10 Food Vouchers for Market City
500 Days of Zooey Deschanel
Volunteering with Carriageworks Children's Festival
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Movie
How to Stop Procrastinating (video)
How to really Kill Your Food Blog
How to turn your bowl of rice into a Korean Face
Omg masterchef is back on TV
Video of Japanese Girl Eats 9KG Bowl of Ramen
Lol there's something funny about this Banana Bread
The mandarins at work have gone mental this Halloween
Saturday, March 5, 2011
the foodchaser index in all its half naked glory
Sunday, September 19, 2010
oktoberfest, food, glory
Allo, meine leiblinge (my darlings)!
It's 1am and we are currently in a pretty little apartment in Munich.
Just came back from Oktoberfest - germany's version of the sydney royal easter show, except that everyone is celebrating beer instead of sheep and macadamia chocolate
beer tents is where the frothy action is. it takes hours of queuing to get into one.... so when you do it's cause for celebration!
we're in! wooooooo
CHOCABLOCK - impossible to find seats inside - eventually gave up and headed outside to find seats
If you're heading to oktoberfest this year, watch out for 1L beer jugs (steins) and pretzels on steroids.... supersize me, german style?
das ist christophe und meine lovely bavarian biermaiden und her three biers
here's to nick, he's true blue, he's a piss pot through and through
giant pretzels!!
We met a german guy on the train to Munich, he gave us a crash course in essential german. This is how to order a beer: Ich hätte gerne ein Bier! bosco and swami i'm looking at you
Ich leibe bier... nicht
If you're not a major fan of beer/pretzels, Oktoberfest offers a crapload of german specialties - tried the apfelschorle (like apple cider), henkl (roast chicken), white sausage and mustard, hot honey-roasted nuts and gingerbread hearts and more
roast chicken shop
and with chicken he makes an instant recovery from pretzel-beer-OD
gingerbread fancies! the germans on our table informed us that boys give these to their ladyfriends - we saw a lot of chicas walking around the fairgrounds with these hearts around their necks. also apparently, you're not supposed to eat them. haha???
they taste so good! delicious with nutella
It took us about four hours to find a table. we leave our seats only for infrequent toilet breaks. Here we are standing on our tables to get a better look at the parades going by - can you spy the little one who is still eating.
Anyway, i'm flying to london tomorrow so gonna get a couple hours of shuteye. more photos to go on facebook, eventually, also want to catch up on reading my blog list! 5000% looking forward to awesome sandwiches at Pret-a-manger and open air fruit markets in London
oktoberfest glory!
Monday, September 13, 2010
venice... charmed, i'm sure
Dear Diary,
The French Riviera was a joy, but those happy days are over!
we are in Venice, it is 1:15am, but we can't bring ourselves to go to bed... tonight, the lady and I are staying in the hostel from hell! an eight-bed dorm where the mattresses are bare (what's linen?), the pillows stained, the doorknobs fall off in our hands, there are mosquitoes and apparently bed bugs, and check out is at 10am aka in the middle of the night
We dumped our stuff and ran out the door to drown our sorrows in calzone and icecream. we just got back and are sitting on smelly sofas in the common "room" googling for new accommodation... ANYWHERE ANY PRICE! WE'LL TAKE IT , just get us out of here, if anyone wants me, I'll be sleeping inside my raincoat
until next time! xxx
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Paris! and castles and food in france and wifi and la tomatina and quiche etc
We are in the city of romance, Paris, and there are no internet cafes anywhere. I am freezing to death in the basement of mcdonalds leeching free wifi and trying to pay off my credit card bills in the next few moments before the internet drops out again, so I'm gonna blog some photos while I wait for the net to reconnect
These past few days, I have been exploring the streets of paris with my lover, the french king, the french god and the greek goddess who wears ed hardy - we danced our way to the Louvre and L'arc de triomphe, skivvied along to see the Eiffel tower at night (MAGICAL).....! Sadly I have few pictures to show for it because my camera got owned at la tomatina.
La Tomatina was insane. Sweat, piss, sangria, half-naked bodies crushed tightly against you, 40 degree spanish sun beating down on your head, and then the OVERWHELMING SOUR STENCH of hard, rotten tomatoes as the five trucks roll towards the centre of the mass of people, everyone's pushing forwards and back, and jets of cold water come spraying down every few moments. In about five minutes after the tomato trucks come by, you're standing in a river of tomato slush but you can hardly see it for the people, there were a billion people, apparently it was a festival of 40,000 this year - don't go if you're claustrophobic, but my god if you go it's an experience you won't forget in a hurry
Getting clean afterwards is another story. Apparently most people go down to the river to bathe, but eden and I couldn't find it so we trailed from the home of one hospitable spanish native to another to stand under their hose as they helped cleaned up off all the gross, smelly tomato bits. I don't know what was more disgusting - my hair or walking around afterwards in those red squelchy sneakers, it was like we were carrying the rotten-tomato-piss-sangria soup around with us
I have hundreds of photos and videos but most of them are blurry-awful because my camera was wrapped in layers of plastic wrap and scotch tape to keep it safe. And then my camera died anyway, rage rage rage =(
So I discovered Barcelona without my camera. Caught an exhausting fever at the same time so I took it slow for a couple of days - wandering the markets in a pleasant daze, lying on the beach receiving coconut-scented massages for 5 euros, visited the picasso museum with alice from wonderland and watched flamenco dancing (dodgy phone photos later), downing sangria and pringles instead of seeing the houses of Gaudi. Met some fab people at my hostel, travelling from all over - from netherlands to austria to france to manchester to melbourne, we went down to a beachside nightclub altogether the first night, I was totally not expecting this and had no clubbing clothes, had to turn my beach dress into a top and borrowed a skirt off sarah.
Got far too much exercise yesterday walking through the super luxurious chateau de versaille, wow the royal gardens and palace chambers
Last night the french lover took us to a dim french bar in 'Luxembourg in Paris'. It was an interesting bar. Voluptuous nude women were painted life-sized around the entrance, very inviting, inside were old park benches and stolen train seats, we sat in a corner on indian cushions and wooden planks, the toilets were dark and papered with music posters, egyptian tiles, street signs and blue graffiti.....
ze monsieur maxime was also there with his big french smile, and met some of their french friends. Tried 'sex on the beach' - malibu orange juice vodka and grenadine, was pretty sweet. Hard liquor is cheap in europe so all the drinks are very strong. Learnt lots of terribly dirty, "important" french phrases and forgot them all right after. Afterwards, went to mcdonalds to feed the frenchies their greasy double cheeseburgers and fries
tiny little boulangers (patisseries) line the streets of paris
our diet in paris can basically be summed up by a bakery window display
beautiful tarts and pastries
filled baguettes
omg tasty-looking croissants?
Found this cafe for brunch today, there were muchas personas, it was tres populaire
hoping for wifi?? but noooooo
The croissants so far have been disappointing
but the muffins and mochacinnos are utterly divine
As the french would say... Paris n'est pas si mal... Paris is not so bad!
Okay the internet keeps dropping out so i'm leaving this mcdonalds
the air-conditioning here is like malfunctioning cos it's like the arctic circle in here, or maybe they designed it this way on purpose to make sure people eat their burgers and get out
So I will leave you with this.... walking home from the chateau de versaille, I took a photo to see what was happening behind me and got the shock of my life
shock of my life
And because that is a terrible photo to end a post with, here is one of the greek goddess, also from the chateau de versaille..........
leaving the gardens of versaille
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Countdown to La Tomatina!!! and day 2 in an european miami
Hola from Valencia!!
It's 4am the night before the La Tomatina, the world's largest tomato throwing festival
Tomorrow morning we are going to Bunol, which is a tiny village near valencia, to pelt tomatoes at each other for two hours
Apparently everything you wear to the La Tomatina will get severely owned so it is best to buy cheap and throw away. Soo...... nos estamos preparando se la tomatina (we have been preparing for the carnage) with muchas muchas shopping!
1. Goggles
2. Cheap shoes (LOL they are tomato coloured)
3. Cheap cheap clothing (at a Zara factory outlet....!)
4. Towel
5. Scotch tape and plastic bag for your camera, and
6. All your manly courage, and se perfecto, you are READY TO GOOOO!
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In the meantime, here are some snaps from day 2 of our vacaciones en la sunny valencia!
this is mi spanish sweetheart relaxing in our bright honeymoon suite
the view from our balcony is beautifuuul
hola from spain!
pardon, i have a photo of mi spanish sweetheart standing on our balcony too but she is wearing a wisp of a nightshirt and so it is too sexy for public consumption. Instead I have this teaser photo of what happened when we down for jamon (ham) and tomate y biscotte at midnight, to blog about laterr~
valencian streets and buildings~!
we found a shop with colourful spanish pottery
spanish jewellery is also muchas colourful! love these beautiful golden bead earrings and uwaa this necklace that says LOVE, AMOR (french), LIEBE (german), and AI (chinese) on it (sorry no korean or hindi =p) and eden found a pretty silver-blue Peace necklace + some smiley charms!
plus necklace and earrings, though you can't really see em
and love this lovely grecian-style scarf!
the shop was as hot as a sauna so we had to quickly run out before we collapsed from heat exhaustion, and head to the gelateria which I will also try to blog about later
stopped for brunch at the horchateria de siglo
we were like royalty! sitting in the royal box in the horchateria looking down over the shop!
pan tostadas con tomate! we are trying to eat as much tomato as possible BEFORE the la tomatina, after which we will probably never be able to look a tomato in the eye again
this tostados was a tomatoey, garlicky affair! you can't see it in the photo but the spanish prepare their baguettes with PLENTY of olive oil.
Las ovejas gustar la tostada (the sheep approve of the toast)
mmm tostadaaa! and fresh orange juice and five-fruit smoothie! spanish brunch es mucho delicioso!
okay lol 3 hours before i have to get up so more photos later! adios from valencia! and if you don't hear from me it means we got owned by the tomatoes
