April 17-22, 2021     We took some time off work to travel to south-east Queensland in April. It's been about two years since either ...

August 31 - September 8, 2019 We didn't have too many plans for our week in Hoi An: take a cooking class , go birding for a day, s...

April 29-30, 2016 Good Days has opened so unobtrusively next to the Cornish Arms that I was at risk of overlooking it. Luckily for m...

February 20, 2015 Recent readers will have noticed my penchant for veggie banh mi . Every time we've mentioned banh mi on faceboo...

January 6, 9 & 24; February 12 & 16, 2015 A month or two back news of a place in Collingwood doing a great vegan banh mi swe...

December 13, 2014 Way back in October when I was going through a slightly obsessive banh mi phase, Cookie Daux tipped us off via Faceb...

Update 17/06/2023: Nhu Lan has now closed . September 21, 2014 It's hard to go past a good vegetarian banh mi - we've had so...

July 28, 2013 We've become quite slack about Northcote, only really exploring all the cafes and restaurants if we're in the ne...

Update 17/06/2023: Fina's is now closed. May 25, 2013 With a free Saturday night and a craving for some Vietnamese, Cindy and I ro...

Update 17/06/2023: Fina's is now closed. February 17, 2013 It's taken us far too long to visit Fina's for the first time. ...

Update 11/08/2022: Miss Chu no longer operates from the CBD, look for outlets here . I always struggle to think of cheap, veg-friendly place...