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desserts,  food,  photography,  vinyl art
April 17, 2012

Vinyl Desserts

Photographer Phillip Karlberg and Chef/ Food Stylist Mattias Nyhlin collaborated on this delicious project where desserts were put to spin on a record turntable for Karlberg to capture with individual soundtracks to accompany each dish. Listen to the playlist on…

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cafe gray deluxe,  cheese,  chef sommelier,  sancerre,  terrior,  the upper house hong kong,  wine,  yvonne cheung
April 3, 2012

Café Gray Deluxe Chef sommelier Yvonne Cheung on Cheese & Wine

We sat down for an interactive session with Yvonne as she introduced us to the basics of cheese and wine. While there are no hard and fast rules about pairings and is subjective given that it depends largely on different…

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oyster shucking,  tips
March 8, 2012

How to Shuck an oyster in 4 steps

We took an oyster shucking class at Pacific Gourmet in Hong Kong recently and was surprised to discover that it’s more straightforward and easier than we thought. We had a go at 3 Australian oysters from Coffin Bay, Duck Bay…

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egg tarts,  food,  macau,  Portuguese,  travel
March 2, 2012

Top 4 Portuguese egg tarts in Macau

Macau is just an hour away from Hong Kong by ferry and worth a visit should you have more than 5 days in Hong Kong. The sleepy casino country’s eating map ranges from fine dining Michelin starred restaurants with stellar…

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