Atlas Dining is nestled just along the outskirts of South Yarra (and next to my favourite fusion Japanese sushi restaurant Gaijin). Headed up by Chef Charlie Carrington, Atlas Dining takes you along a globetrotting journey to the cuisines of different countries every four months. This trip I had the change […]
HIBIKI: JAPANESE-STYLE BRUNCH IN MELBOURNE
Located just on the outskirts of Camberwell, is Hibiki, a really beautifully decorated cafe serving Japanese styled fusion brunch. If you want to skip to the video click here. At first, if you search ‘Hibiki’, you’ll be inundated with a flurry of Suntory Japanese Whisky blends, and I suspect this […]
IN MEMORY OF KARL: WHY KARL LAGERFELD WAS MORE THAN JUST A FASHION DESIGNER
(Image via CHANEL.com) On Tuesday 19th February news broke out that Karl Lagerfeld had passed away in Paris, aged 85. While I never knew Karl personally, I was fortunate enough to have worked for two CHANEL’s during his reign, working for CHANEL in Australia and CHANEL in London, United Kingdom. […]
FINDING A LITTLE BIT OF PARIS IN HONG KONG’S “METROPOLITAIN”
With Hong Kong home to a large population of French nationals, it’s no wonder we have quite a number of French restaurants too. I personally haven’t tried too many French restaurants here in Hong Kong – the other place I had tried was Plat du Jour for a friend’s birthday, […]
ON THE “PROW” FOR THAILAND’S BEST SWEET BASIL DISHES
(Credits to: PROW’s Facebook page) As part of my interest in covering friends & seeing where they are now (especially if they’ve ventured onto their own entrepreneurial journey), I’d like to introduce my friend who I met back when we were studying at London College of Fashion together. While I […]
HONG KONG’S BEST DIM SUM RESTAURANTS
Visiting Hong Kong is never complete without a meal feasting on the amazing dim sum that the city has to offer. Dim sum is actually a Cantonese translation of the Chinese word 點心 which can be loosely translated to little bites/pieces – which makes sense since dim sum dishes are […]
ELEPHANT SANCTUARIES: GETTING TO KNOW THAILAND’S RESCUE ELEPHANTS
Many tourists visit Thailand each year embarking on trekking rides etc… not knowing how much suffering this puts the elephants in. Most of the time, elephants that are kept at trekking sites etc for “tourism purposes” are usually subject to a lot of abuse and hardship in order to ensure […]
DON’T EVER LET ANYONE DETERMINE YOUR FATE
(Image via WSJ.com) Anyone that has known or met me before knows that I am absolutely in love with NBC’s “This Is Us”. You can find me bawling my eyes out in almost every episode, so much that the next day at work you’ll find my colleagues asking me “are […]
PIRATA GROUP’S CHAIWALA TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA
This week we had the pleasure of trying out Pirata Group’s latest Hong Kong addition Chaiwala. Centered around modern Indian cuisine, the entrance to this quirky little establishment isn’t so straightforward. The address: 43-55 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong. This leads you to a big blue bright door that says Hugger […]
DINING WITH FRANCIS: MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINE
This week my friend and I had the pleasure visiting this newly established little restaurant hidden within the design/hipster side of Wan Chai. Hidden just off St Francis Street in Wan Chai, is FRANCIS – an intimate little restaurant bringing the best of Middle Eastern cuisine to the internationally diverse city that is Hong […]