What I ate: Crab Salad Roll

You know that time of the week where you have spare cooked crab meat in your fridge? No? You don't? You ate it all?

Well I usually do too, but I was convinced for long enough that I should try something new with the crab (rather than simply give my usual answer, "EAT IT") that I came up with this speedy and crab salad roll recipe!

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Golden Fields, St Kilda

Kingfish, Avocado, Fresh Wasabi, Konbu, $8 (half portion)

"You'll remember me when the west wind moves/ upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky/ when we walk in fields of gold"
Sumner, G., Bogdanovic, D. (1993) Fields of Gold [Recorded by Sting]. On Ten Summoner's Tales [CD]. EMI Music Publishing

If you are into your food, you can't go to St. Kilda without stopping by Golden Fields. This trendy eatery has been popping up on many an Instagram feed, accompanied by cries of, "Lobster roll! LOBSTER ROLL!"

What? Did you just name a tasty crustacean? Why, of course I would like to eat it!

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Taste of Sydney, 2014

Clockwise from top left: Suckling pig on a spit from 4fourteen, Woodfired lamb from Porteño, Mussels in Apple Cider from 4fourteen, the most bad ass name card holder I've ever seen

Once a year, Sydney's top restaurants gather to offer tasting sizes of their most creative, iconic, popular dishes. Where gourmands and gluttons alike can gather and partake in all the hedonistic delights that culinary giants can offer. This is...

TASTE OF SYDNEY.

Of course, it would have helped if you read the previous paragraph in an epic, movie trailer voice.

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What I ate: Cheat's Chilli Crab Pasta

Whenever I mention that I'm from Singapore, the first thing I get asked is, "Do you make Singapore Chilli Crab?" Well, the answer is that I don't yet, but in the meantime, I totally have a cheat's method of enjoying all the shiok-ness of Singapore chilli crab without all of that work!

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