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Porteño, Surry Hills, Sydney

by Craig November 17, 2011 Dinner

  See the squiggly line over the n?  That’s called a tilde and it changes the pronunciation of the word.  You’ll sound more authentic if you say it right!  WRONG: por-teen-oh, RIGHT: por-teen-yo.  Yo is the key!  (seriously though, it’s one of my pet hates when people pronounce jalapeño as ja-la-pee-no, instead of ha-la-peen-yo.) During [...]

Tagged as: angus, beef, bread, brussels sprouts, calamari, chocolate, coffee, custard, ice cream, iPad, lamb, pavlova, pina colada, polenta, pork, porteño, rib, spider, surry hills, sydney

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Jackie M Malaysian Cuisine, Concord, Sydney

by Craig November 12, 2011 Dinner

We’d been wanting to go to Jackie’s restaurant ever since hearing about her and her great food somewhere on the Internet.  We had tried her roti kaya at Malaysia Fest and loved it, and had tried her char kway teow at the Night Noodle Market in Hyde Park.  We just needed an excuse to get [...]

Tagged as: ayam goreng, beef rendang, char kway teow, concord, curry puff, jackie m, nasi lemak, roti canai, roti kaya, sydney, teh tarik

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