Carven's Table

The unassuming black fungus It's been two months when Perth Foodie had fun drinking and eating at Perth Good Food & Wine Show , and of course some of us bought ourselves a piece of truffle, trying to experiment with this aromatic fungus at home. Most of them cooked with it straight away once they got it, but for me I tried to freeze it and bring it back to Malaysia, where my family members could try it.   This piece of truffle that I bought weigh 15grms and it cost me $30, it's so tiny that you don't really want to use it. Anyway, I tried freezing it in hope that it will taste the same after 2 months of harvesting. After 5.5hours of flying plus a few hours extra for airport check-in and check-out, the first thing I did when I got home was to check it out. To my horror, it was completely thawed, wet and soft, I wasn't sure if it's ok but let's just hope. (Notice the white line through the truffle are not there anymore, now it looks like a piece of black ...

Traveled back home to Malaysia over the weekend, it had been great so far celebrating cousin's 21st (tons of food at the party), stuffing my face with Durian, going to Ramadan Bazaar first time ever in my life for traditional Malay food. In the past 2 days I was pretty much feast upon variety of food non stop to the brim, it was good for the palate but not that good for my waist line! Ramadan Bazaar However, in the last 6 hours I had the Fright of My Life - realising that I couldn't find my passport, I might have drop it, lost it or was being stolen. The idea of not being able to travel out of the country in the next 5 -10 yrs was frightening, it is as bad as imprisonment. After searching my room for a good few hours, shedding bucket tons of tears, scalp scratching and what not, my passport appeared somewhere hidden by me, of which I can't seems to recall. I couldn't believe my eye, holding my passport close to my heart as though it is my baby, I had to scream to r...

Marinating in progress I came across this recipe while reading other food blog , a dish that I've forgotten and enjoy eating it a lot - Assam Prawn(Assam Heh)/ Tamarind Fried Prawn. Somewhat, a very comforting childhood dish to me and I can't believe I've forgotten about it all these years. After glancing through the recipe, I realised how easy it is to make this dish and it tasted fantabulous. Ingredient 16no. Large Banana Prawn 4 tbsp Tamarind Pulp 8 tbsp Water 3 tsp Sugar 3/4 tsp Salt 5 tbsp Cooking Oil Method 1. Extract tamarind juice by adding water to tamarind pulp and start pressing or squeezing with hand. 2. Trim off pointy bit on prawn head with a scissor (you may choose to remove the heads if you prefer) then devein prawn by slitting the back and slowly pull out the urinal track. Rinse prawn then dry with paper towel. 3. Mix salt and sugar into tamarind juice. Then pour juice onto prawns and mix it with hand. Marinate for 20 minutes. (You may remov...

Recently discovered a new Dim Sum place on Albany Hwy, Vic Park. They open everyday for Dim Sum from 10:30am - 5:30pm, that make them slightly different from anyone else. They have Bubble Tea too!  Apart from serving Dim Sum, they also have a range of lunch dishes, noodles and rice. By adding more stuff on their menu, they also serve bubble tea. Interior  Yummy House Chinese Restaurant did put some effort in renovation and decoration. Warm light tone and dark brown colour tables + chairs, but nothing too fancy or plain. Although they said they are open for Dim Sum til 5:30pm, but when we were there, the restaurant have no sight of patrons and staff. However, staff appeared from no where to attend to us immediately. It was a sheer awkward moment as we are not used to staff providing butler service, especially in a Chinese restaurant. Straight from the steamed trolley, except for egg tart. Once we sat down, one of the staff served us hot tea and chilli oil, anoth...

Spring Espresso Been hearing a lot about Nekisse coffee from twitter. It is a reserve micro selection Ethiopian coffee, and it is part of Five Senses reserve range of the year. Many have said "if you love coffee, you should really try Nekisse." Now a normal 250g of coffee bean would only cost you around $10, not for Nekisse though, a bag of it could cost you $28. That being said, on a fine Wednesday night, Spring Espresso twitted "Tomorrow filter coffees: Tanzanian Blackburn Estate, Ethiopian Nekisse, and Brazil Monte Verde CoE Lot 21. Come get some!" and there I was sipping on Nekisse on Thursday. Spring Espresso is located at the Crossway Shopping Centre, Subiaco, just off Bagot Rd. With only a few comfy coach seating available in the cafe, Spring Espresso has a stream of local and regulars went in for coffee. Nekisse Micro Selection 2010 Upon entering, there were a standing blackboard written with 'todays single origin'. If you like specialty...

While restaurant along South Terrace in Fremantle were bustling with diners feast upon pasta and pizza, the rest of Freo is as quiet as if the earth just stop spinning. If not for the great ratings on Urbanspoon , I wouldn't have thought of dining in this hole-in-the-wall French restaurant on High Street. Hallway leading to the toilet, on the wall were newspaper and magazine clippings. French born owner and chef Frederic Verschoore spent years training and working in a 3 Michelin-star restaurant in France, then spent more than 10 years abroad in Hong-Kong and Japan. After all these years of training and working in city that never sleeps, he finally settled in our humble port city and opened up his own restaurant.     Dining hall  Great Mellie is a 40 seated small restaurant, comfortable sized clothed table, old-fashioned chairs, paintings from artists and a cave-like 3D structured wall (that reminds me of Djimbaran in Myaree, maybe they were using the same cont...

Italians has Spaghetti/Pasta as their staple and for Chinese noodles has become their essential staple. So much so that the Chinese are obsess in making all kinds of noodles, using different type of flour, making it into different shape and cooking it in different broth or serve them dry. In saying so, the dough can be cut into thin strips, hand pulled, hand rolled, extruded, peeled and kneaded. They do have a way to play with it and call it their specialty for that region. When the Chinese exported their people to South-east Asia and other country, these people (my ancestors and friends) started to come out with a more localised noodle dish, thus in Malaysia we've Pan Mee. A bowl of freshly made Pan Mee and condiments While Malaysian food is not hard to find here in Perth and almost every Asian restaurant serves noodle dish, but Pan Mee is one exceptional that I don't seems to find it anywhere in Perth, except Spencer Village Food Court (but that doesn't taste as aut...