February 23rd, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
A princess cake and a corporate job in banking seem like unlikely ingredients for a macaron company, but they each played a part in kickstarting MakMak Macarons. Carlos Heng and Dan Pigott began their venture in DIY style, with Carlos overtaking Dan’s kitchen and selling his sweets in an underground fashion. Eventually MakMak went legit, […]
January 8th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 6 Comments »
Happy new year! I hope your resolutions have stayed unbroken (or were fun to bust – sometimes high-minded pledges are just too joyless to stick with). I also hope your days have been set on maximum levels of lazy – unless, of course, you’ve been escorted back to the office and those TV binge-watching marathons are […]
November 30th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 2 Comments »
So the year is almost over, but expect more ‘open’ signs to go up soon. You may spend your upcoming mealtimes at … Ippudo, which will be generating ramen steam-clouds at Westfield Sydney from December 6. (When the New York branch opened in 2008, Japanese news crews covered the event. I wonder if the Sydney […]