March 1st, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Latest, Restaurants | 1 Comment »
Ghostboy Cantina was one of the 2016 venue openings I was most wired about, and it’s proved to be worth the calendar countdown. Owner/chef Toby Wilson set himself a launch date of Chinese New Year, which meant he found himself dodging lion dancers and Chinatown crowds in setting up his Haymarket taqueria and, as you’d […]
September 13th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Podcasts | 4 Comments »
At N2 Extreme Gelato in Sydney’s Chinatown, the ice cream is a front-row-worthy spectacle. Unlike the usual vision of some poor staff member deep-cabinet-diving to wriggle a scoop out of a ginormous rock of gelato (and you praying they’ll be spared from end-of-shift RSI after all that wrist-heavy excavation) – at this new establishment, employees […]
July 6th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
I really like the idea of food re-sparking your interest in your own city. Especially when it happens by chance. So, on Friday, by complete accident, I ended up near the night markets in Chinatown. Of course, I followed the spotlights and tarpaulins to where the action was. It was pretty quiet and small to […]
February 13th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
It was a running joke that Keith, Alison, Will and I would one day go on a 50s-style double-date. You know, just like in Archie comics or on Happy Days, with us all sipping milkshakes out of heart-shaped straws and hoeing down burgers and fries between sitcom-style punchlines. With a jukebox blaring the kind of […]