Tokyo Mart, Northbridge

Toothpick holdersA follow-up visit to Tokyo Mart, the biggest Japanese grocery shop in Sydney.I really could spend hours, no, make that days, in here. The first ten minutes were spent in the crockery aisle, pawing ceramic bowls, delicate tea cups and a fruit salad collection of colourful chopstick rests. Then it was a meander through the kitchen section, a wander along the vertical freezers and

Mooncake Mania

With the height of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival due on October 6, it's currently mooncake mania all over Chinatown. Mooncakes, rich in lard and the goodness of egg yolk, are exchanged between families, and it seems like the tins and the packaging get more and more elaborate every year.And Festival Addict says don't forget the Cabramatta Moon Festival on this Sunday.Related GrabYourFork posts:

Taka Tea Garden, Sydney

Roasted peas and gyokuro teaHow much do you love your green tea?If you're not sure of your response, the test is easy. Try the green tea healthy lunch set at Taka Tea Garden.I'd always been intrigued by the lunch counter at Taka Tea Garden at World Square (for some reason marked as Rosa Tea House above the door despite all the Taka Tea Garden brochures inside). Sure the tins of loose tea leaves

Toby's Estate, Chippendale

There is something infinitely satisfying about cupping your hands around a big bowl of steaming coffee. Size does come into it, but it's also the comfort factor (and Parisien nuances) of slowly sipping at a coffee receptable the size of a small soup tureen.There is no doubt that Toby's Estate have their own legion of coffee fans. The queue at their stall at the Good Living Growers Market

Tomodachi, Broadway

Chicken katsudon $9.50Deep-fried chicken with egg and topped with spring onionServed with steamed rice and miso soupTomodachi means friend in Japanese, and so it seemed apt that Saffron and I lunch there the other week.It helped that we both love all things Japanese. And it definitely helped that our lunch was speedy and most delicious.Deborah had the chicken katsudon, a cavernous square-shaped

85C Cake Shop, Sydney

Strawberry tiramisuThere’s a new cake shop in town.Thursday night and I receive an email alert from food spy tracey who tells me "there’s a new cake shop on George Street". It doesn't take me long to find it (especially when I ask a pair of girls holding distinctive red cake boxes "Excuse me, whereabouts did you get that from?").Display window85 degrees is a new era of cake decadence. Apparently

Auburn Street Festival

Another weekend. Another festival.A sun-drenched summery day--all blue skies and not a cloud to be seen--greeted today's Auburn Street Festival. It was a tough call between the Bankstown Bites Food Festival and the Auburn Street Festival, but the allure of dondurma ice cream was too strong to resist. Besides, I had checked out Bankstown Bites last year, whereas the Auburn Street Festival was