August 17th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
I’ve never really spent much time at Chifley Plaza. See, on my last visit, I had to pick up an $800 ballpoint pen from Tiffany to use in a magazine shoot. This was many moons ago, when I was an editorial assistant and my minimum-wage-earning self was unable to compute how a simple pen could […]
April 4th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Buying a jumbo bag of supermarket Easter eggs and leaving a Hansel & Gretel-esque trail of coloured foil around your living room is pretty much a major tradition at this time of year. I’m as happy as anyone else to leave crinkly metallic scraps of yellow and pink “eggshell” around, but I also like the […]
March 20th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
It’s hard to be poker-faced when talking about Tetsuya’s. It’s the most gushed-about, overachieving restaurant in Sydney. Tets has retained three chef’s hats throughout the last 17 years, regularly (almost predictably) won Best Restaurant of the Year accolades with Meryl Streep-style consistency, and claimed the title of 5th Best Restaurant In The World in 2007 […]
March 12th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
A post about Tetsuya’s should arrive here soon. It’s being slowed down by my less-than-express Brain Delivery (my brainwaves are a bit slow and distracted at the moment). Just to be totally backward, here’s a pic of the petits fours we (bravely) tried to finish after 14 courses of fancy overeating. Just to tide you […]
February 10th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
January is a fast-disappearing month. It’s like the guest that leaves your party without saying goodbye. January makes such a whirlwind exit, I think, because there’s so much on (Sydney Festival, Australia Day, New Year’s, holidays, concerts galore) and all these events always come with a good excuse for eating. Anyway – the January blur […]
January 22nd, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
OK, I already have many chocolate-box-sized reasons to go to Boon Chocolate, which is one of my fave places in Sydney. Just before Christmas, they even added a new passionfruit/caramel flavour, which had me re-ranking my most-loved chocs there. But now they’ve really upped the ante, with this gorgeous Flores de Mayo Chocolate Bag. It’s […]
January 9th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
In one big broom-sweep, I’ve found all these blog-dust-bunnies that have been lurking in my “Draft” folder over the last year. So I decided to wipe them clean and give them an airing. In the same way stores go crazy around Dec/January – purging their storerooms and piling their shopfronts high with price-slashed items – […]
November 27th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
When the city you live in is so well-mapped in your head – with every laneway and street corner worn out by your autopilot gaze – it’s nice to be revived by something new. I love it when a discovery jumpstarts your enthusiasm for the geography around you; how finding a string of unfamiliar gems […]
November 10th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
It’s nice to have a place that you can think of as a lunchtime lifeline. The kind that’s worth the extra walking distance, worth blanking out the convenient eateries more closely located, worth becoming momentarily amnesiac over how much you really should be spending on a workday meal. The kind that jacks up the rest […]
November 2nd, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
On Saturday, I caught the tail-end of Good Food Month . I’d missed all the sugar-dusted, napkin-crumpling, spoon-sucking fun of October, thanks to bad luck really: I got stuck in a work-coma (which left me a social vegetable), and then I got slugged with a bad cold, only allowed pots of soup and tissues for […]