October 9th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | 3 Comments »
You no longer need a boarding pass (or tolerance of long bus trips) to get into MoVida. The well-regarded Melbourne institution has just opened its first NSW outpost in Surry Hills. And while it’s less than a week old, MoVida Sydney arrives with a robust, in-built fan base – the type that will excitedly single […]
September 3rd, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Three days in Melbourne = many mealtimes, chased by the photo-filter haze of Instagram. Words soon, promise.
February 6th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you hope for something so unlikely to happen that you can foresee the “Permission: Denied” reply before it even arrives. So, for work, I put in a request to do an email Q&A with David Chang and Corey Lee for Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, thinking it’d be knocked back because they are incredibly […]
July 30th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Bars, Cafes, Travel | 11 Comments »
As my parents could tell you, getting me interested in maths is a losing battle (for years, my brain and trigonometry enjoyed pretending the other did not exist). Here’s one calculation I enjoy making, though: taking a holiday and dividing it into maximum mealtimes and snack breaks – with no remainders left over. So this […]
March 22nd, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 11 Comments »
It started with a spoonful of bubblegum-flavoured bubbles. Served to me by someone who looked like an Oompa Loompa returning from ballet school. This was my introduction to Sweet Architextural, the night that Bompas & Parr and Burch & Purchese recently staged for Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. The event was like a dream-sequence directed […]
February 12th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
So, Will asked me to keep the weekend before my birthday free and to pack an overnight bag. A weather report was my only clue as to where we were going – “Sunny with a chance of shower”. On the same day we left Sydney, there’d be news reports of flash-floods later that evening. We […]