16 Nov

A new collaboration between Wonderbao and Chamil Kelly, former head chef and manager of Wonderbao, Mantou made its debut appearance at the 2015 Melbourne Night Noodle Markets. Kelly came up with the DIY concept of combining buns with other flavours and meats. These flavour combinations were created together with Matti Fallon, former chef of DuNord and Huxtable, and focus on Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean flavours. [caption id="attachment_10705" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Mantou - Soft Shell Crab, Japanese Seven Spice, Rice Wine Pickled Root Veg, Kimchi Mayonnaise $14[/caption] First up was the Soft Shell...

21:46 / Asian / Chinese / Food / Food Truck/Food Stall / Japanese / Korean / Mantou / Restaurants
12 Jun

Beans and Bagels is no more. Sir Charles is the latest venture from the owners of Axil Coffee Roaster, Dave Makin and Zoe Delaney. Zoe previously worked for the owners of Beans and Bagels, teaming up with a number of partners to form this new restaurant. They renovated the interior of the former bagelry and spruced it up with a polished, bright, modern and spacious interior. White walls, pale wood, and copper accents create the theme, with splashes of aqua and turqoise creating a sort of feature wall,...

14:04 / Asian / Cafe / Chinese / Fitzroy / Food / Japanese / Korean / Sir Charles / Thai
19 May

Due to mum being overseas during the actual weekend, a somewhat belated Mothers' Day celebration saw us at Bistro K. Down the outlet factory end of Smith St, Bistro K describes itself as a modern Korean restaurant, combining Korean flavours with Western cooking methods. Heading the kitchen is Jae Park, formerly of Nobu. Park has some impressive kitchen experience under his belt, previously working at a French restaurant in the five star Hotel Shilla in Korea, as well as acting as head chef at a restaurant in the...

21:15 / Bistro K / Collingwood / Food / Korean / Restaurants
19 Dec

Maybe because it was Friday night, and also the last Friday before Christmas, but there seemed to be quite a number of large groups going for after-work dinner or Christmas parties. At first I was going for the galbi BBQ because I thought I hadn’t tried it before, until I found out that it was the same marinade that’s used in the DIY Korean BBQ. I picked the spicy pork so we could compare it to Miga ($17), and also the galbi stew ($20). We considered the ginseng...

20:04 / Christchurch / Korean / Mum's 24 Restaurant / New Zealand / Travel
18 Dec

More Korean! I was originally going to get dolsot bibimbap, but went with kimchi dolsot bibimbap instead (both $16). I know it exists but I haven’t seen it on a menu yet so I thought I may as well try. The three portions of kimchi replaced a few of the other veggies they normally serve in their bibimbap and the gochujang represented one of the sections, rather than being free to add by customers. I chose beef, though pork, tuna and tofu were also options. It was nice, though...

14:17 / Dunedin / Korea House / Korean / New Zealand / Travel
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