As some of you already know, the V & A Waterfront in Cape Town has started a market filled with glorious food. I have check this market out before and found a selection of my favourite local traders there, including The Creamery (Peanut Butter ice cream – yes please), Taste of Taiwan (food that reminds me of home), By Nature dried fruit and nuts, Stokkiesdraai Biltong, Classic Marmalades and Jams, O’ways [...]
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Cape Town Rollergirls Derby Diner. Our final fundraiser for 2012! Design by rollergirl G.I. JoJo (Jolize Jacobs) – Check out the event on Facebook here! Join the Cape Town Rollergirls on Facebook and Twitter. Tweet
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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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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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The Earth Fair Market in Tokai, Cape Town is located at the Builders Warehouse, being the ideal location for a market on that side of the city. This market also trades in town at St. Georges Mall, a beautiful strip through the city centre, which I’ve previously posted on – click here to see post on the market. Most visitors of this market enjoy the Wednesday evenings as a dinner [...]
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On Saturday, a new market had started in Woodstock, Cape Town. The Palms Market is a bimonthly market bringing us the freshest of foods from the Platteland. I received an email from Social Plus One, inviting me to the market’s opening, and of course, I’m always keen to check out a local market. Even though The Palms Market just started, there’s a certain appeal – especially with an covered parking area, [...]
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In Taiwan, you can find a wide range of delightful snacks at night markets, which is, also known as street food. One of my favourites is the steam-fried bun. The direct translation for 水煎包, is “water fried bun”. The bun is semi-fried and semi-steamed, but very little oil is used in the process. These delightful buns are delicious and pretty much one of the easiest things to make in Taiwanese [...]
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How it came to be: After resigning from a full-time position as an SEO copywriter, I turned towards my passion – food. After spending an incredible amount of time looking for the perfect job, I stumbled across a food-related part-time job as a sales person at markets for Oded’s Kitchen on Gumtree, yes… Gumtree. However, my very first encounter with Oded’s Kitchen was actually at a Red Velvet Cupcake Course [...]
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Being Taiwanese, we have two main festivities, our New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the Moon Festival). So this weekend my sister, Jasmine, and I came back home to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival with our family. When in Bloem, one of the things most of the locals partake in, is the Boeremark. For my short visit back, my mama, Jasmine and I made a mission to the [...]
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A few months ago, I resigned from a position that I no longer enjoyed and started working for Oded’s Kitchen by doing markets, while searching for freelance copywriting, design and social media work. I continued working for them and started joining them in the kitchens at Oded’s Kitchen’s HQ at the Old Biscuit Mill. Every Thursday, I assisted Oded in anything he needed – from peeling 5 kg of garlic [...]
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