kinfolk

Olivia Rae James

Next week me and Rachel are going to a kinfolk lunch. Are we excited? Oh yeah. Are we ready? Ready for new friends at a shared table, for Kangaroo Valley in all its sweet simplicity, for the picturesque, for the exquisite, for the spectacular, for the kind of afternoon that we dream of? Oh yeah. We were born ready.

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things I'm going to do this summer - #1-3

101 cookbooks

one. Buy fresh flowers every day. 

two. have long lunch parties with friends that turn into dinner parties that turn into sleepovers.

three. drink ALL of the champagne.

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soups

Nikki To for Broadsheet

If, like me, you're stuck in a gruelling countdown to the end of semester and your toes are almost frozen off with chill and all you want is a bowl of something steaming hot filled with some noodles or meat or potatoes or vegetables or pulses or all of the above or nothing then look no further than the list of sydney's best soups I compiled for Broadsheet. This was a fun article to write.

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Oh la la

There are noodles and there are noodles and these are of the latter. Slippery and slick, yet still firm and chewy, they were suspended in a rich broth of chicken (me) and fish (dad). The result was pure bliss, the kind of warm-bowl-comfort you search endlessly for on a cold day, and that was exactly what we had been doing, hunting down a bit of red-cheeked heat on an overcast Hong Kong Wednesday in our little corner of Wan Chai. Well, we definitely found it.

Olala, 6 Star Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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Life

A quick lunch for a quick type of day. I had spent the morning running back and forth between interviews and was about to spend the afternoon running back and forth between shops. I needed something filling and I needed it fast. That's how I stumbled upon Life Deli on the corner of Ship st and Johnston Road, beloved of hungry expat locals craving a bit of organic lunchtime grub. I opted for a big mug of lentil Dahl followed up by a sinfully, well, unsinful everything-free chocolate mousse cake and didn't look back. I'm not sure if I could stomach such, well, goodness on a regular basis, but drinking that deliciously chunky soup and chowing on that deliciously rich cake and sipping a fresh young coconut (when in rome!) I started to miss my friend Belle, the OG organic devotee, terribly.

Life Deli, 50C Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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the pawn

Humans are creatures of habit. We like routine and we like doing things according to plan, that's just the way it is. Some more so than others, but in our heart of hearts we like a bit of structure. How else do you explain visiting the same spots every time you go overseas? It has something to do with memories, sure - we had a great meal here, let's try and do it again - but it also has something to do with familiarity and comfort. And why not? The first time we went to The Pawn I was still in high school. Like most of our restaurant discoveries in Hong Kong it was borne out of a need for non-Chinese food after a week of just that. In a restored colonial building deep in the middle of wan chai we found what our hearts desire; British gastropub fare (posh fish and chips, beef wellington and pea and mint soup) in plush surrounds. Every subsequent trip to Hong Kong has featured a trip to the Pawn, and each time we go we enjoy ourselves just that little bit more, perhaps from reliving old memories and perhaps from the fact that it keeps getting better. Yesterday's lunch with my dad was case in point. The dining room was absolutely filled to the brim with flowers, we feasted on lightly seared salmon and beef cheek and finished with chocolate and cinnamon mousse. We go to the Pawn because we are creatures of habit, but we keep coming back because it's just too good.

The Pawn, 62 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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bits and pieces

photos doing what photos do best: slipping through the cracks. again and again and again and again.

reflective surfaces at the Christopher Esber show // Bacon and Egg roll done so well at Cornersmith // Something about the bike // Hot cross cookies for a hot cross Easter

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lunch party

Impromptu larch parties call for quick dishes - pasta with herbs and ricotta cheese folded through (everyone I know who has tried it has asked for seconds), a peach and demerara sugar cake and bunches and bunches of flowers. Keeping it simple is the key, but also keeping it light. A plate of pasta that feels like a salad, and a cake that is as airy as a cloud. That's the secret.

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