No secret I love South East Asian food, and no secret I am a fan of MasterChef. Thus a combination of these two makes up a perfect evening in my books. With my good friend Mondo Mulia I joined a Malaysian Master Class at Chi Kitchen with none other than Ping Coombes, the super friendly winner of Master Chef 2014. Chi Kitchen is a recently opened Pan Asia restaurant within Debenhams premises in Oxford Street, owned by the same group as…
The last time I visited leafy Maida Vale I was 19, a couple of years ago, really. Coming off the tube at Warwick Avenue, with Duffy’s song in my head (of course), I realised what a lovely neighbourhood this is. Sun setting casting long shadows over the trees, grand period mansions, the canal with the house boats placidly floating, I should really come here more often. After such a pleasurable albeit short walk, I arrived at the Crocker’s Folly, a…
Pastabites on tv This week I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest audience at a filming of Market Kitchen, the food show on the Good Food Channel We do not have it on freeview, so I was not entirely sure what to expect, but I still applied to be part of after seeing a tweet about it. If it’s food, then I am up for it. I am pretty sure that the only reason why they called…