This Cape Town based family runs a fishing business, servicing the restaurant, hospitality and wholesale industry. Offering some rad seasonal and locally sourced fish and seafood they fondly dubbed Greenfish Boxes. Now, with the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa, Green … Read More
Warm Lemon and Rosemary Pudding Cakes with Seedless LemonGold This recipe is a collaboration with LemonGold, new product by my favourites ClemenGold. These lemons are completely seedless – great for juicing and candying (the segments aren’t cratered since they’re pipless), … Read More
Now that my book launch is over, I can do the grossly soppy ‘thank you’s. Here’s a post on the process, including all those that contributed to the creation of my new cookbook Just Add Rice – stories and recipes … Read More
My friends at Studio H (a multidisciplinary design studio), organisers of many rad events like Street Food Festival invited me to their team as their cultural advisor and wanted to learn more about the harms of cultural appropriation. This is a delayed … Read More
As soon as you walk into Loaves on Long the first thing you do is close your eyes and breathe deeply to sniff up all the freshly baked scents. Thank you to team Errieda and Ian du Toit for inviting … Read More
I was invited to speak at Cape Town’s Deloitte, a financial consultant company on Tuesday, 2 May 2017. I was fortunate to get the gig because my brother suggested me to them. He referenced my Media24 article on my life experience … Read More
Matcha in Chinese-Mandarin is ‘抹茶’ which is pronounced ‘moah-tsa’ (this is how I would spell the pronunciation) – the first part of the word meaning ‘ground’ and second ‘tea’. This special ingredient is uniquely Japanese and used all over Asia … Read More
This was published in newspaper print: Sunday Times | Food and Lifestyle PG 46 (The story and extra info had to be cut out due to space constraints, please see the full story below) –– May there be fish every … Read More
Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year is to be celebrated this year (2017) on the 28th with a New Year’s Eve dinner on the 27th of January. I’m 28 years of age now, and as I’ve celebrated … Read More
This year was a toughie, one of my high school friends had to stop eating gluten. Shem. And with so much gluten-free ingredients and dishes in Asian cuisines, I decided to play around so that she can still enjoy baked … Read More