Presented by Pick ‘n Pay, the Stellenbosch Wine Festival 2013 opens on 25th January till 3rd February, including an extra ten-day program showcasing the town of Stellenbosch. This festival boasts a great variety of wines for all types of wine enthusiasts. Make sure to follow updates of the event on their Facebook page or their website. They were kind enough to send me 2 tickets and a case of wines from [...]
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Morinaga Milk Caramel is one of my favourite Taiwanese sweets when I was a lightey. These sweets are milky caramel flavoured with a wonderful chewy taffy-like texture. Morinaga is a Taiwanese product and you’ll find it in many Chinese supermarkets. Tweet
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Checkers, a local shopping centre we’ve all grown to love, is doing a campaign on their premium meat ranges. Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay is appearing the in this NEW Checkers’ campaign, think about it one of the world’s toughest food critics endorsing your products – wow. Checkers has given Butterfingers a signed copy of Gordon Ramsay’s cookbook, The Ultimate Cookery Course as a give away. This competition is only available on Twitter [...]
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The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) also known as Full Moon Festival usually occurs over late September or early October (this year it was September 30). Traditionally, we eat “Moon cakes” and pomelo after a family dinner. Family dinner has evolved into barbeques, allowing you to enjoy the beauty of the full moon while eating a family-orientated meal. The “moon cakes” are something quite special. My favourite flavour is made of a [...]
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This post is more of a feature because I want to share the wonderful world of K!ff Posters to you. In some friends’ band “Tonightwedie”, the raging drummer, known as Nothief, is also the graphic designer at Gloo Design Agency. Nothief is Michael Pauls. His fascination for this type of “poster art” stemmed from his youth, raiding his dad’s record collection to look at the various creative elements that create [...]
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Chinese 5-Spices provides a myriad of flavour bursts and can be found in a wide variety of dishes in Asia. The five different spices consist of cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, Sichuan pepper and star anise – they don’t need to be equal in quantity. You can find Chinese 5-Spices from any local supermarket or Chinese supermarket (click here for listings of Asian Supermarkets in Cape Town). This picture was sourced [...]
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Finding a “the best of” restaurant is not exactly the easiest task, especially if it’s a more “generic” menu item like steak, ribs, schnitzels etc – everyone has their own opinion and most restaurants offer those meals. Now, Margaritas is a steak and seafood house where I’ve been eating, with my family, for almost 10 years now. Margarita’s was my very first experience of western fine dining and has been [...]
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This picture was borrowed from The Cheese Festival on FB Hi everyone! I was given two double tickets to giveaway to two lucky followers, provided by the PR team at Go4word. Each ticket is worth R110, so you can really spoil your plus one to this special event. The SA Cheese Festival is a gastronomic experience and offers a wide variety or cheese traders and wine traders, along with other [...]
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Before going to Taiwan, my cousin, Christine, advised us to take a trip to a certain cafe. It’s become one of my favourite cafes and is called 85 °C Cafe and Bakery. This coffee shop specialises in desserts and afternoon tea. Their menu has quite a variety including: full cakes cake slices cheesecake rolls pastries decent coffee flavoured teas (hot and cold) lattes mocha slush smoothies and one of my favourite Taiwanese beverages [...]
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I often shop at two specific Chinese supermarkets, living in the northern suburbs in Cape Town: Live Mart and 96 Chinese Supermarket. These two are Taiwanese-owned stores, which means I can always purchase brands that I grew up with and they both make bubble tea! There is imported junk food, cooking essentials, exotic spices, Asian beverages and duckeggs, Asian supermarkets have quite a diverse selection of products compared to your [...]
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