“Wow there are still chinese restaurants in Perth that look like this!?” A plastered ceiling of fierce red and gold dragons lit with antique lanterns and a moon gate for an ostentatious entrance, Foo Gwai looks like it it arrived in Applecross from a bygone dynasty. More thematic than the usual chinese restaurant next door, [...]
These muffins are very good – just like a carrot cake, funnily enough. They freeze particularly well, retaining that fresh straight-out-of-the-oven tenderness, even after thawing. The texture and flavour makes them interesting enough to eat a few mornings in a row and there’s not much of a guilt factor either. It’s almost healthy. It could [...]
The Prophet is one of the worst kept secrets in Perth. It’s really hard to get a dinner booking at short notice so the next best choice (if you are in the area or lucky enough to be not working) is to rock up for lunch. We arrive a few minutes after opening time and [...]
Yes another muffin post. We’re quite hooked on having muffins for breakfast. Nothing beats a home baked muffin, which are worlds away from supermarket muffins which seem to be all flour, sugar and not much else… Baking muffins is high reward, low effort. If you can’t finish a dozen muffins, consider freezing them. So get [...]
Slowly melting in the shade, the hot air rippling over the road surface seemed to have chased the lunch crowds away. The weather was hailing the return of a long, hot Perth summer. In the midst of the heat we spotted To To – a place we have always walked past but due to my scepticism [...]
