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Restaurant Review – Sukjai Thai, Sydney

This is a late review on Sukjai Thai Restaurant located in Pitt St, Sydney. A little restaurant that we often passed by but had never had a chance to try until last week when we had dinner for my brother’s birthday dinner. Overall dining experience is good, their food tend to be on the spicy side (which is great!), service is a little slow (I think there were only 2 waitresses around to tend half-full restaurant). They have interesting and colourful decor throughout the restaurant, every table has different chairs where some look much more comfortable than others 😀

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very colourful lighting and jumbo cutleries on the wall
very colourful lighting and jumbo cutleries on the wall

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Three Cup Chicken

This is a new dish to me, I had only tasted it last week while dining out with some families. Upon tasting this stewed-like dish, both husband and I loved it straightaway yet we could not figure out what the seasoning goes into this dish. Where do you go looking for information? Sure enough, I searched on Google and found lots of recipes there. They are all very similar, maybe some variants on the extras to add to the dish. Basically the name three cups refers to the three basic sauce used: soy sauce, sesame oil, and rice wine. Generous amount of garlic and ginger and thai basil leaves are put into this traditional Taiwanese dish as well.

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Steamy Chicken Soup for Cold

I had caught flu these past few days and what’s better to soothe the sore throat and blocked nose than a bowl of steamy chicken soup 🙂

My usual staples for chicken soup are: chicken breast, onion, garlic, celery, carrot, and potato. Sometimes I add extra spices, like cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, ginger, or ground coriander seed (depends on what I have on hand). This time I only added bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves and some ground ginger, I think the kaffir lime leaves really freshen the soup with the slight tangy fragrance.

So dear readers, what do you usually put into your chicken soup?

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Jimbaran Style Grilled Mussels aka Kerang Bakar ala Jimbaran

This was our dinner for Christmas last year, just remembered to share it today. I saw the video on Youtube and knew I just had to try it out since we all loved grilled seafood, especially Jimbaran style. Jimbaran is an area in south Bali about 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport which is well-known for its romantic seafood restaurants by the beach while waiting on sunset. And yes, it is quite touristy and prices are relatively more expensive now; but it is an experience if you are happened to be in Bali. As you may have seen on my previous posts about what we ate in Bali here and here, we always stopped by Jimbaran whenever we are in Bali and had enjoyed it.

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Easy Peasy Donut Balls

donut ballsIt is called easy peasy for a reason: you can whip up these little snacks only in one hour include preparation and cooking time, and there is no need to knead the dough to the elastic stage. Do notice that because of no kneading phase, the dough will be very soft and you will not be able to shape them like the normal donuts with hole in the middle, hence they are shaped in balls using two oiled spoons and drop directly to deep fryer. The ingredients for this recipe are simple as well, just your usual pantry staples.

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