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Bubble Tea Bowl: Made in Taiwan

August 14, 2016 by Tania 11 Comments

Bubble Tea Bowl: Made in Taiwan

Bubble Tea Bowl : Made in Taiwan I’m making a Bubble Tea Bowl. It’s my version of the classic bubble milk tea from Taiwan. Have you ever had a bubble milk tea? I had never tasted one before I went to Taiwan even though you can get one easily in Sydney or many other cities…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Desserts, RECIPES, Travel Tagged With: Bubble Tea, Cooking tapioca, Fruit bowl, green tea, I love Taiwan, Making Bubble Tea, Oolong tea, picking tea in taiwan, Taiwan, Tea in Taiwan, Tea regions of Taiwan, Tea tourism, travel in Taiwan, travelling in Taiwan

Acre Farm and Eatery, Camperdown

July 23, 2016 by Tania 2 Comments

Acre Farm and Eatery

There’s a farm in Camperdown, the inner city suburb that neighbours Newtown in Sydney’s inner west. An abandoned bowling club has become the cities hottest new farm to table project. Acre Farm and eatery This is more than just a restaurant/ cafe / bar though it’s a community project with the “Commons” and growing area…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, reviews, Travel Tagged With: Acre, Acre Eatery, Bar food in Sydney, Camperdown, eatery, Farm to plate, Pocket city farms, Prestaurants with outdoor seating, Sydney Restaurants, The commons

5 things to do in Vancouver, Canada

July 20, 2016 by Tania 14 Comments

5 things to do in Vancouver

5 things to do in Vancouver 5 things to do in Vancouver, Canada Summer nights in Vancouver are very long. It’s light, even sunny until at least 9.30- 10 pm. This is something I didn’t know. After an all night flight from a different time zone, things were very confusing. Did I have the right…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Travel Tagged With: canada, eating in vancouver, False creek ferries, granville island food tours, gringos gastown, land sea tours, peak to peak, poutine, restaurants vancouver, things to do in vancouver, travel, vancouver, visiting granville island

10 things I’ve learnt about Cruising.

June 5, 2016 by Tania 4 Comments

cruising

Here are the 10 things I have learnt about Cruising. Up until recently I had never set foot on a cruise ship, but thanks to help from MSC, Oceania and Princess Cruises and collection of very knowledgeable cruise writers I have taken a fast track learning experience that has surprised me A LOT. All that…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Travel Tagged With: 10 things I've learned about cruising, Cruiseliners, cruising, Curtis Stone, Oceania Insignia, Sun Princess, Touring the world on a boat, travel

New York 10 things to see on your first visit

April 11, 2016 by Tania 18 Comments

New York 10 things to see on your first visit

New York 10 things to see your first visit Here’s what I saw. The Naked Cowboy in Time Square 1. Times Square Yes the locals hate Times Square for it’s gaudy rip off stores and strangely colourful characters, but love it or hate it, it is a must see. People watching here is rated at 10/10….

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 10 things to see in New York, Fatron district, First time in New York, My first visit to New York, New York, Nolita, Oysrter Bar Grand central Station, Parm Cafe, Places in New York, The Naked Cowboy, Time Square ticket Box, Visit Grand central Station, Visit New York

Nacho Dogs and other Manly Food!

April 4, 2016 by Tania 19 Comments

Nacho Dogs

Nacho Dogs and other Manly Food is brought to you in collaboration with Serviced Apartments Sydney I have just spent weeks trying to decide what I might do for holidays this year. It always seems sad that we  have to work so hard the whole year for a holiday. What about a break in between all…

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Filed Under: Brunch, RECIPES, Sandwiches and Snacks, Small Bites/ Party Food, Travel Tagged With: food trends, Hemingways, Hot dogs, jamtown, lunch dishes, Manly, Manly Beach, Manly cafes, nacho Dogs, Nachos, Ora, papi chulo, Party food, sandwiches, sebel.com.au, showbox coffee, Snacks, Weekends away in Manly

A Weekend in Port Macquarie

December 13, 2015 by Tania 7 Comments

  What to do on A Weekend in Port Macquarie. Each year for just one precious weekend I spend time with my 3 sisters. Just us. No partners, friends and especially no kids. It has been a tradition of ours now for about 5 or 6 years. The four of us together just like we…

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Filed Under: Cafes, Travel Tagged With: bittersweet Cafe, Blue Poles Cafe Byabarra, Cafes in Port Macquarie, Dunbogan, Eating around Port Macquaries, family traditions, koalas, Lighthouse beach, North Brother lookout, North haven, Port Macquarie Hinterland, Social Grounds Cafe, travel NSW, traveling Australia

10 Unusual Things to do in Sydney

November 15, 2015 by Tania 7 Comments

Whether you are a local or just planning a visit to Sydney here are 10 unusual fun things to do in Sydney that don’t involve a museum or the opera house. This may just surprise you. There are no shortage of beachside offerings in Sydney. Let’s start with a view of Bondi Beach below. Beautiful…

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Filed Under: News and New Things, reviews, Travel Tagged With: 10 things to do in Sydney, 10 unusual things to do in Sydney, cronulla beach, Culture Scouts, dave's Brewery Tours, foodi.com.au, Fruit bats in Sydney, Hipsters and Hops, Luna Park, Maniax, Nepean River Belle, Petal met Sugar, Sydney, Sydney Fish markets, the Goods Line, Travel Sydney, Wooloomooloo Pubs

Chelsea Market Food Tour New York City

November 12, 2015 by Tania 9 Comments

On my recent trip to New York City, there were so many exciting things I wanted to do I started to feel a bit panicked. (is that just me?) The first thing on my agenda of course was booking a local Food Tour. As you know this is the thing I normally do when I…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, reviews, Travel Tagged With: Chelsea Market, Chelsea Market Food Tour, Chelsea Market Tour, Food Tour, Gansevoort, Highline Park, Meatpacking, New York, NYC, Zerzura

Travel Penang Food Tour ideas

August 9, 2015 by Tania 11 Comments

  Have you ever been to Penang? Have you ever wondered where it is or heard about the incredible food or how easy it is to travel in Malaysia? I have a long history with Penang. When I was younger ( ahem*), I was so in love with Penang that I went there 6 times…

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Filed Under: News and New Things, RECIPES, reviews, Travel Tagged With: Chendul, China House Penang, eating around penang, Food Tour, Food Tour of Penang, Food Tours with My Kitchen Stories, Malaysia, Penang, Penang Spice Gardens, travel, Travel Penang, Traveling to Penang

Hot Hanoi Nights 10 things to do in Vietnam’s Capital

June 3, 2015 by Tania 5 Comments

Hanoi Nights

  Hot Hanoi Nights 10 things to do in Vietnam’s Capital Have you ever written about a destination in just a few paragraphs?   It’s hard to capture just the feeling of it in a few words. Do you get any sense of the place from this ? The lights were dim as we arrived in…

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: A trip to Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hanoi, mykitchenstories travel, travel, Vietnam, what to do in Hanoi

Alfajores with Dulce de Leche & Lake Titicaca

March 15, 2015 by Tania 25 Comments

Alfajores with Dulce de Leche are one of the worlds most underrated pastries. They will be a welcome biscuit at your house. This is how I first discovered them… I love Alfajores. They are one of the gems of South American treats. melting shortbread filled with Dulce de Leche, a caramel made with caramelised milk….

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Filed Under: Biscuits, Cookies and Slices, RECIPES, Travel Tagged With: Alfajores, baking, biscuits, caramel, cookies, dulce de leche, Lake Titicaca, Peru, Recipes, Shortbread, south american cookies, sunburn, Taquile Island, travel, travelling in peru

Rick Stein at Bannisters

December 7, 2014 by Tania 11 Comments

The South Coast of New South Wales 3 1/2 hours from Sydney is an idylic strip of coastal playground dotted with holiday houses. It’s still relaxed and remains a very quiet and family friendly place to rent a house. We stayed in a place called Manyana for the weekend with full intentions of cooking, walking…

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Filed Under: reviews, Travel Tagged With: Lunch at Rick Stein, Mollymook, My Kitchen Stories at Rick Stein., restaurants NSW, review of Rick Stein at Bannisters, South Coast New Sout h Wales

Keith Tulloch Wine

November 23, 2014 by Tania 7 Comments

I love to go behind the scenes and visit producers This is where you feel the passion, the history and the struggle. You are briefly swept up into someone’s dream, feeling their passion and enthusiasm. It’s when I am reminded of most our connection to the earth and what it gives us, and that as…

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Filed Under: reviews, Travel Tagged With: "The Kester", Alisdair Tulloch, Australian Wine, Hunter Valley, Keith Tulloch Wine, Muse Kitchen, Peridiem, Semillon 2014, Travel to The Hunter Vallery, Wineries

Leleuvia Island Resort Fiji- The perfect Island

August 5, 2014 by Tania 9 Comments

Cooking in Suva, roadside crab sales

Leleuvia Island off the eastern coast of the main Island Viti Levu near Suva, is a must visit.  It’s much like going to Singapore and skipping Sentosa Island or Thailand and skipping Koh Samui, you’d miss a quintessential  experience. Leleuvia is much more of a Robinson Crusoe experience than 5 star resort and if you are…

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Bures in Fiji, fiji travel, fijiislands, holidaysinfiji, Leleuvia island resort, reviews, speed boat taxi, travel, visiting fiji, where to go near suva

A trip to Auburn

July 28, 2014 by Tania 10 Comments

Sponsored Post I am not sure about you but the perfect day for me would be any that I spent with one of my sisters, which usually also means eating and today I am going to lunch and on a field trip to hunt down some cushions. My sister loves cushions in fact I think…

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Filed Under: Cafes, reviews, Travel Tagged With: Auburn, baklava, cushions, food, Super A Mart, travel

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Tania Cusack Hi, I'm Tania and this is My Kitchen Stories. I share all kinds of recipes here. Most recipes are quick and easy, just perfect for families. BUT, you could also find vegan, cakes and desserts too. Come and have a look around Read More
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