There is a place on Russell Street (I know many of you know it),wedged unpromisingly between the porn shop and the disposals. It’s called Nam Loong and, on an analysis of cost to gastronomic return it is hands down my favourite Chinese restaurant. Pete introduced me to it when we first met nearly 18 years ago now, and he was introduced to it by his biological father who had been going there for god knows how many decades since he moved to Australia from Malaysia. » Read more: Salted Chicken
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December 7th, 2009Cambodian lime and black pepper sauce
November 4th, 2009I haven’t done much traveling, but since the kids were born we have managed to get to south east Asia a couple of times. Our first trip was to Siem Reap in Cambodia, the town outside the temple complexes of Angkor. I loved the Cambodian food – very delicate and fragrant and not too heavy on the “big” flavours of ginger, chili and garlic (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). I also have to admit that I’m crazy for that whole Asian / European colonial thing – all amazing architecture, dark furniture and lazy ceiling fans which parts of Siem Reap have in abundance. Drinking huge iced glasses of sweet lime juice in the midday heat in this kind of environment is just my sort of decadence. » Read more: Cambodian lime and black pepper sauce
