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Vietnamese cuisine has long been a favourite of mine.  Crisp and clean flavours often punctuated by selective use of spice, it’s food that makes you feel good when you eat it.  I certainly felt good after enjoying the signature dishes Ms Vy presented in her Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dinner at Dandelion.  Trinh Diem [...]

On Sunday October 16 last year, at around 7pm, The Beloved and I landed at JFK in New York City after nearly a full 24 hours of travelling.  We collected our bags, grabbed a cab, went to our hotel, had a much anticipated shower, donned clean clothes and went straight back out the door and [...]

It wasn’t my first choice.  It wasn’t even my second or third.  It was booked on my fourth attempt to find a Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dinner to go to with friends.  Juggling availabilities, location and my late foray into finding something, I knew it was a big ask to get a booking for [...]