Carven's Table

Little Creatures Brewery have been a favourite of mine ever since my first visit 5 years ago. That was also my first time trying pale ale and I'm hooked ever since. I have been to Little Creatures on several occasions: casual meet-up with friends, birthdays, overseas visitor, or just to chill out, be it summer or winter either day or night. I see them expand and grow within these 5 years, bigger and better just as my maturity. No doubt, it's one of many's favourite hang out place in Freo everyday of the year. With its expanded size, there are plenty of tables and seats of different sizes, cater to different groups of people in the dining hall and at the back alfresco style.             On a hot summer day On a cold winter night And you couldn't get any fresher beer than coming to Little Creatures Brewery, it's literally coming straight out from the tank. Of course the beer list is only limited to their own brand, they also carry few W...

. Last weekend was the annual event of Mundaring Truffle Festival held at Sculpture Park up at Perth Hills - Mundaring. Apart from celebrating the sweet harvest of truffle, there were also a range of quality local produce on offer at the gourmet produce market.  If you went to Good Food & Wine Show Perth last month, this event is something similar but more exciting, you can get more personal with the producer and it was less commercialized too. Imagine warm sun, fresh produce, talk show, cooking demonstration, fine food and live music at a more affordable price. I personally think this event is better than GFWS, less rowdy crowd and more family and matured crowd.  We decided to go to the festival last minute, thus we missed out on The World's Longest Truffle Lunch and other ticketed event hosted by local celebrity chef. We arrived 15mins after the festival kick-off, but we were stucked at the queue for buying tickets to get in. *Note to self: next time must buy ticket...

Due to recent disappointing dim sum experience at Dim Sim Cafe , which didn't really satisfy our craving for dim sum, we were back to one of our favourite dim sum places 4 days later for a guaranteed dim sum fix. This is definitely not my first time here. I have been back since their opening, bringing different groups of friends, families and overseas visitor each time. This is because the place is spacious, no queue, clean, attentive, good quality crockery and tableware and best of all, it offers a huge variety of dim sums. Also we almost work out what's best to have here and what's not. Clockwise from top left: Steamed prawn dumpling, steamed prawn and chive dumpling, steamed pork & prawn dumpling, steamed spare ribs. Above mentioned are pictures of some of the top 10 you-must-try-items at Dragon Palace. Steamed prawn dumpling (Har Gao): Fresh bursty prawns with a crunchy bite, wrapped in rice flour dumpling skin that wasn't too thick nor too thin, it was...

Cappuccino - $3 Just last week, there has been a dispute (it might just be overly strong, let's just say an article in The West) over expensive coffee price in Perth as compared to Melbourne. I may have to agree, a regular cup of flat white in Perth might be $0.10 or $0.20 higher than Melbourne or Sydney, but Hannah from Mooba Espresso  beg to differ. Also on the same day of the said article being published, I discovered Perth's cheapest coffee in the CBD. I ain't kidding, a regular flat white cost me only $3 and a short mac or espresso is only for $2.50. I almost had the shock-of-my-life, when the barista asked me to pay $3, I froze for a while and couldn't keep the smile away from me and said "that was cheap!". Low Down Espresso Bar is a very small, almost kiosk size like cafe hidden inside Cloisters Arcade, I did doubt when I was walking through Cloisters Arcade whether there's gonna be awesome coffee inside this old fashioned building. It was a...