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 26th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Every TV show has a perfect hangout – the kind of place where characters linger forever and never get shooed by wait staff; with booths ergonomically built for conversations (and sighs) about complicated relationships or just light, fizzy, punchline-packed joking around. The food is smart and there are frappes you can sip with sass or […]
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 5th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
It’s hard not to get keyed up about Oscillate Wildly. After jumping through the barriers of getting a booking (phone-wrangling a date for many months ahead – if you make it through the unending engaged signal), you end up having an incredible, ambitious dinner in a cosy, relaxed setting that will chart highly on your […]
July 18th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
When Mark from China Heights gallery claimed Cafe Ish as one of his favourites on my list blog, that’s when the place first tripped off my worth-registering-in-brain mechanism. I did a bit more online sleuthing and discovered it was a cafe that specialised in Australian food with a Japanese twist (!) and it flaunted an […]
July 2nd, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
When you first start going out with someone, one of the nicest things is meeting their group of friends. You’re introduced to a ready-made group of pretty amazing people, without having to go through the years-in-the-making work of finding them from the unknown crowd, one by one, right from scratch. If number one spot goes […]
June 14th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Sadly, I’m not one of those bright, perky people who gets all hopped up about leaving the house at 6AM to “make the most of the morning”. I’m a sleepaholic, so am always pushing my luck being bedsnug for as long as possible. The only thing that can break me out of this pillowy trance […]
March 24th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Eating out for breakfast is one of those great weekend-centric activities (along with sleeping in lots, being a night owl with your friends and doing regrettable things that you have a whole extra day to get over). So it’s weird that a lot of breakfast places are closed on Sundays (all you get is extra […]
March 11th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Things I Like About Nazimi: 1. It is a cute little basement Japanese diner with miniature lamps on each table and easy-on-the-eye Eastern crockery to boot. 2. It takes care of that pesky “what to eat in the city?” dilemma.3. It’s way less greasy than the former “what to eat in the city?” front-runner (cheap […]
February 22nd, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
Every year, I wonder how a priest who was clobbered to death ended up being the poster guy for romance. And every year, I never quite get around to finding out. I should probably make a better effort, given that my (cough) birthday falls on Valentine’s Day, but hey it also coincides with International Mullet […]