Please excuse our absenteeism..

Hey Readers,

We just wanted to say and apologise of our absenteeism lately. Whilst we have been away, we have been getting in touch with our creative side and employing the knowledge of making a short video to promote what we are about and what we do.

So, here it is: 

Have a look and tell us what you think! Comment, watch, watch again, and perhaps even share the video!

Love Thyme-forfood :) x

The special Chinese Food

Chinese Food is welcomed in many countries, and that's why ChinaTown exist. What will come to your mind first, when talking about Chinese food? Hotpot? Yumcha?

Here, we cooked a special kind of hotpot -- Dry hotpot.

Here are the materials to prepare: Meat (any kind of meat) , fish meat, potato, gizzard，needle mushroom.

STEPS:

STEP 1: Fried the spice in the oil to make the source.
STEP 2: Put all the material into the source and fry until it become dry.

It does not look like very nice but taste great!

Shui Jing Fang is the very famous Chinese restaurant for waiting hotpot. Only in this restaurant, you can have authentic dry hotpot.

Address

15 GlebePoint Road, Glebe

Phone

9518 5328

Style

Restaurants

Cuisine

Chinese

Hours

Lunch and dinner daily

Details

Licensed, BYO

Price Guide

About $70 for two, plus drinks ($3 a person corkage)

Thai cuisine at Satang Thai

Since I have friends who are also enthusiastic foodies, we are really keen on trying out different cuisines. This time, the theme's Thai food. There are so many good Thai restaurants around Sydney: Chat Thai, Sailors Thai (previously called Oy), Spice I Am, Yok Yor, just to name some! Luckily enough because one of my friends is from Thailand, so we got great food guide from him!

We went to Satang Thai Exclusive in Central (Sydney) for a quick dinner before heading to Event Cinema. In fact, Satang Thai actually has 2 different stores - one sells takeaway food (called Satang Thai Takeaway) and another one is the Exclusive. They're on the same street!

It was Thursday night and the restaurant was packed. We had to queue up for about 15 minutes. We got eight people and decided to have all kind of meat (e.g. pork, chicken, beef, duck) and also seafood! My friend made some suggestions and we were more than happy to try on those. 

The food arrived shortly (about within 15 minutes). They were served with steamed jasmine rice. Our first dish was Yum Neua - the beef salad with spicy sour dressing. The crispiness of the veggie and tenderness of the marinated beef make a good combination. However, nothing special, to be honest...

The main dishes came at once. We got Sweet chilli fish, Panang - Chicken Curry, Chilli Duck and Keang Som Cha Om - a kind of soup. Thai food's quite spicy and salty (that's why you usually eat them with jasmine rice) so you should prepare! 

The sweet chilli fish is quite tasty! The fish is deep-fried to golden and drizzled with Thai sweet chilli sauce, garnished with baby sprout and carrot. The skin is really crispy while the fish is still moist and tender. I can taste the saltiness of fish sauce, the sourness, sweetness and a hint of spices in the sauce. 

The Panang - Chicken curry is my favorite dish of the night! The chicken is so moist, soaked in creamy, smooth, nutty curry sauce. Everything is so well-seasoned! I just love it! 

Chilli duck is another great dish at Satang Thai Exclusive. It's stir fried duck with Thai chilli sauce and fried Thai basil leaves. The dish looks so appealing and we couldn't wait to tuck in! I especially love the deep fried basil leaves! So creative and yummy! And look pretty on the plate too. 

We also ordered a soup for the meal. It's called Keang Som Cha Om. The soup is quite spicy and hot (we were warned at first), containing egg cake, prawn and mixed veggies. I didn't enjoy it much since I can't have too spicy-hot food. I prefer my mom's veggie soup instead (lolz)

The whole meal costs us around $100 (for 8 people). Looking at the generous amount of those dishes, it's quite cheap actually! Not a fancy, fine dining Thai restaurant  for special occasion, but a good idea for weekday dinner with friends or family. 

Satang Thai Exclusive 

Address: 204/107 - 121 Quay Street, Haymarket, NSW

Phone: (02) 9212 5885

Food For Thought

Thought of the day for food....

I battle what I feel to be an ever-ending war between my mind and stomach about wanting certain foods, that are not particularly the best to have, especially late night studying for university exams!

I found this table which has proven to be rather trust-worthy (based on social experiment on myself of course) and interesting. Where our minds have such an awareness of foods, but however the chemicals it requires are depicted to the brain in what seems to be the most unhealthiest manner, even when there are plenty of other alternatives. 

It was not until this year, after leaving school last year, that I have really had a conscious awareness of foods and appreciated them a little bit more, especially the good foods (or junk) that have had to be cut out of my diet.

I find this table as rather an alternative to the saying that you are what you eat, because you are essentially fooling your mind into thinking it is consuming for example a salt saturated heavy food such as chips, when you are just eating a nice piece of fish.

An interesting read and definitely something to keep in mind when next hungry and ready to binge!

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When Food Unites Us To One

A blog of three Australian university students, all bought together by the love and passion for food of different cuisines and times, from all around the world, but eaten and experienced in Sydney.

This blog will follow us on an adventure as we share recipes, stories and foods from anywhere in Sydney that have made us melt on the inside, and perhaps drool on the outside.

As food is such a vital aspect of our lives, it is incorporated in a huge aspect of socialising, being social beings. This consequently invites us to broader our palettes and experience new foods and tastes of all colours, textures and countries, which will be shared with you.

So here is to the first thought for this blog, which will be the basis of our posts and new journey we start:

"Chefs, authors, musicians, actors, poets, so many of us have very strong feelings about food.  Why is food so emotional?  Scents of food stir up childhood memories, cooking for and feeding someone is one of the sweetest gestures in the world, even watching someone eat can be a delight.  Food and love are undeniably connected."

To the foods which have been a favourite for years, and for the ones that will cause a new obsession and mouth-watering experience!

Note: we will also be intertwining our journey with the use of twitter! Follow us!!

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