Krispy Roll ~ Vietnamese Pork Rolls - Haymarket

A tiny store in the back streets of Haymarket offers one of the cheapest pork rolls in the CBD. Cheapskates rejoice!

[REVISITED JULY 2014]

Shilin Night Market ~ Taipei, Taiwan

Shilin market in Taipei. Two street food fans. Let the eating begin.

Happy Snack Cafe House ~ Vietnamese - Homebush West \ Flemington

You want pho? Then don't come here. You want a spicy beef stew with meltingly soft carrots you can dunk with bread? This is the place.

Taiwan Street Food Tour ~ Let's Taipei! Part 1

The one place we hear about over and over for street food heaven is Taiwan, so we head there over December for three weeks of  feasting. First stop, Taipei, where we learn that after years of travelling we can still make mistakes.

Grape Garden Beijin Cuisine ~ Chinese - Chatswood

We heard the whispers. 'Go to the grape place in Chatswood, you'll like it'. Then people started talking a bit louder. 'Grape Garden is good'. Now we are shouting it - 'Grape Garden, we love it!'

Mykababayan Filipino Dishes & Sari Sari Store ~ Fairfield

Mr Shawn faces his most feared real life nightmare. No, not the one about going to school with no pants on. And not the Tony Abbott nightmare, that one came true. We're talking about the ultimate nightmare of the foodblogger: finding a great restaurant without camera on hand, armed with nothing but a phone and bad light. Call the shrink.

2014 Sri Lankan & South Indian Food Fair ~ Homebush

We heard this food fair up the street before we saw any food. The tak-a-tak of chopping roti was a giveaway for some good Tamil food on offer.

Let's Taiwan! ~ The Short Version

Before we subject you to many long, bloated posts from our three week Taiwan trip, we thought we'd post of a quick summary of our eatings to answer that question everybody has been asking us - "so what's the food like in Taiwan". To which we reply with a puzzled look and a scratch of Shawn's bald head.

Sydney Madang ~ Korean - Sydney CBD

Walk down Pitt Street, detour down a small dark alley, and follow the smell of Korean BBQ to Sydney Madang.

Beginners Guide to Eating at Sydney Chinatown Food Courts - Tips and tricks for first timers

Eating out in one of the busy food courts in Sydney's Chinatown can be a mysterious and wonderful adventure. This is our guide for first timers or out-of-towners to get the best out of your visit.

Cafe Bariloche ~ Argentinian - Glebe

At the top of Glebe Point Road is a little part of Argentina hiding as a  regular pastry and coffee shop. Look closely and you'll find some surprises beyond the usual cakes and flat whites.

Valentine's Romance at the Greyhounds ~ Wentworth Park

This Valentine's Day has gone to the dogs.

Summer in Tokyo ~ Wandering the Suburbs

A couple of days wandering the suburbs of Tokyo. And eating. Two of our favourite things in the whole world.

Two Sticks ~ Yunnan China - George St Sydney

A new restaurant featuring food from the Chinese province of Yunnan opens between an Irish Pub and a Malaysian eatery. Gotta love Sydney's diversity.

Kaysone Sweets ~ Thai Lao - Cabramatta

We head to a sweets shop for sausages and walk away with three bags full of salad, larb, dried beef and shredded chicken feet.

30 years ago today - Sydney's Chinatown leaves the laminex image behind

Eating World does not yet exist. Dixon Gourmet Food Centre has just opened. McDonald's on George St is opened by NSW Premier Neville Wran with a formal gala. It's January 1984 and Chinatown is undergoing a period of redevelopment.

Supermarkets of Mystery ~ Tinned Banana Blossom in Brine

Tinned banana blossoms, often found in the canned fruit section of an Asian grocery store among the lychees and jackfruit, make an unexpectedly excellent vegetable side dish.

Ugly Bob Stylish Korean Food ~ Market City Food Court - Chinatown

Ugly Bob. With this kind of name, we are bound to be interested. The first part of the name might be ugly (and we can't vouch for Bob), but the food lives up to the promise of stylish Korean dishes far superior for a humble food court offering.

Summer in Tokyo ~ Cold Noodle Fest

We've got a spare couple of days in Tokyo at the start and end of our Sapporo trip, our obsession is Tokyo's summer tradition of eating cold noodles.

Battambang Cambodian Chinese Restaurant ~ Cabramatta

Scoot down the side arcades off busy John St in Cabramatta for some Cambodian food.

Supermarkets of Mystery ~ Puddings and jellies - taro, black sesame, green tea

Puddings and jellies are fun food. It was always a special night when there was jelly for dessert, usually with ice cream and tinned fruit. So finding so many new varieties of jelly and pudding flavours to try in the supermarket unleashed the inner kid in us and we had to try them.

Summer in Tokyo ~ Kakigori Shaved Iced Dessert

We had three days in Tokyo to top off our Sapporo trip. One of our aims was to try as much kakigori as possible. Kakigori is a summer speciality of flavoured shaved ice, a Japanese snow cone or ais kacang.

Gone but not forgotten 2013 - our annual ode to closed food treasures

There's a pile of letters and the tell tale sign of unswept leaves and dirt at the front door. The glasses are still on the table but there'll be service here no more. Our annual ode to food treasures lost to us in 2013.

Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks ~ Devonshire Street Tunnel, Haymarket [CLOSED]

We prepare for some serious street food snacking in Taipei and all over Taiwan by trying this franchised chain of Taiwanese delights.
[CLOSED]

Colombia Organik ~ Colombian - City\Central

From beginnings as a same-same cafe, Colombia Organik has become one of Sydney's little foodie treasures.

Emperors Garden BBQ & Noodles ~ Chinese - Haymarket

We finally visit an old Chinatown favourite with a camera. Dinner with family and some favourite roasted meat goodness make a wonderful combination.

Dog Dog Japon ~ Japanese Hot Dogs [CLOSED]

Are they Japanese? Are they American? Or neither? Dog Dog Japon mixes up its cultural references and throws back some fine snackages.

[CLOSED AROUND MARCH 2014]

Momiji Japanese Takeaway ~ Pittsway Arcade - Sydney City

Momiji is said to be the oldest Japanese food court stall in Sydney, with over 23 years in the Pittsway Arcade. That's a lot of katsudon pushed over the counter.

Sapporo Summer Soup Curry Fest ~ Japan

As we pack our bags for Sapporo, Alison sheepishly tells Shawn that she's been commissioned to write an article on soup curry for a magazine. We're not sure if we will be published but dang we have a good time researching it, and we unexpectedly fall in love with soup curry. Here's why we will never be journos.

Beijing Style - Flavour of Beijing ~ Chinese - Chinatown

Beijing Style is the spiritual successor to the much loved and sadly missed Daily Noodle Fast Food. It's just as ramshackle, almost as small, almost as cheap, and the food is excellent. Beijing Style is the kind of joint that inspires us to do what we do, whatever that is.

[Last updated March 2014]