I’m kind of obsessive about food. I wrote ‘Chinatown Kitchen’ in 2014, an exploration of ingredients you can find in Chinatown - and ‘How Many Ways Can You Cook An Egg’ in 2022, a book for kids and their adults to explore the adventure of cooking together.

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View fullsize The sweet days of Summer, filled with sea and sand and pals and sticky hands and smiling faces. What a privilege it was to have this time with them ❤️
View fullsize We were lucky enough to be invited to @pachamamalondon to try out their brunch, so off we went on the hottest Sunday in a while 🫠 the Marylebone branch is a cool underground haven. The star of our show were the chicharrones, beautiful glazed cubes o
View fullsize Wong Kei is one of my most frequently visited restaurants in London; for me it feels like a slice of home, a little bit of Hong Kong that I ache for deeply in my bones. I never take anyone there. The perfunctory service, the canteen-like feel and fea
View fullsize I found some ultra thin somen-type noodles in @longdan and they are truly the best for cold dishes. I nicked this idea from @mob but because I’m too skint to buy a subscription I watched the video, eyeballed a recipe and added my own touches. I
View fullsize Home from two weeks away, and straight to the instant pot we go. Charred onion, garlic, ginger into the pot with chicken legs (5, drumstick and thighs together), with 1l water, a tbsp fennel seed, 3 cloves, 2 star anise, a glug of fish sauce and some
View fullsize One glorious week in Crete, featuring: - Dakos, Cretan meze made of kritharokoula - a barley wheat twice baked bread - tasted a little smoky, with tomato and feta on top - villa life (Almyrida Panorama villa, sleeps 10, was lovely) - never quite se
View fullsize Had an impromptu steak night thanks to the lovely shops in our neighbourhood 😍 decent aged rib eyes from @swaledalebutchers c/o @marmelo_kitchen, slathered in blue cheese butter from @yardarm_leyton. The steaks were cooked on the bbq and had a hefty
View fullsize It’s probably a bit cruel to post about @singburi_e11 since their books are full until October but never mind! As a Hong Kong kid I was often presented with crispy noodles in gravy, probably the only noodle dish I didn’t really like - som
View fullsize If there is a more East London concept than a fried chicken and Pet Nat menu, I’m yet to hear it, but I am SO here for it. @papi.restaurant runs it on Tuesday nights, where pairings such as fried chicken and mortadella Gildas are served up with
View fullsize Fish-fragrant pork slivers, a dish that contains absolutely zero fish but is so named as it may have originated from fish dishes. Typically this sauce is used with aubergine, but as we had some pork fillet, we went that way. Particularly pleasing is
View fullsize We stopped off at J’adore in Leytonstone after a taco feast to satisfy the sweet tooth gremlin; the intricate-looking patisserie lured us in, and the little sunny garden out back was the perfect spot for a coffee. We tried the passion fruit and
View fullsize Went to @fazenda.group on an #invite and was greeted by sleek surroundings, housing what is essentially an all you can eat meat feast with a salad (and cheese and charcuterie..) buffet bar. Contrary to what you have *probably* conjured in your imagin
View fullsize Sometimes you’ve got to deviate from pasta, and I know how hard it is to admit that but it’s true. I bought some 50/50 crab (white meat brown meat) and thought oooh pasta! And then our veg box arrived with a beautiful lettuce in it and I
View fullsize Day-glo orange buffalo wings, dry-rub Szech-one numbers, and my fave of the day - Darjeewing Express, covered in tamarind, coriander chutney and jaggery sauce. The cauliflower was also a joy. Finger lickin’, kitchen towel destroying, riot of fl
View fullsize Just a lil’ appreciation post for friends (@charityshaw 😘) who sent us a @matsudairamen gift card to take care of us in our most recent postpartum period. Ironically with the chaos of a newborn we never got round to ordering our heat-at-home r
View fullsize Engagement is in the bin at the moment, I guess our overlords did not appreciate my 🍉 posts, or I haven’t paid any money for boostings, well overlords, little do you know my dopamine levels are largely unaffected by likes these days! Anyway, h
View fullsize A little cross-country tapas tour, in which I hand pounded my own pesto for the first time ever, to have with burrata, blood orange and caper salad, @nick_bramham’s Espinacas con Garbanzos c/o @vittlesmagazine, and a tomato, anchovy and grated
View fullsize We went to @lightbarlondon for lunch yesterday, where @aliborer13 of Smoking Goat fame now cooks. The menu reads very attractively, and it was a tough call on selecting what not to have! In the end, as we were dining through @firsttableuk, we all had