Cooking with Ooh-Ee
Ooh-Ee is no newcomer to the Melbourne DJ scene and, with over seven years' experience, he can win over the most diverse of crowds. Not many DJs can tear it up at our urban-flavoured club night Favela Rock, then head down to C-Grade and produce a flawless disco set. So, how does he keep it all going?
The answer lies in some seriously good home cooking - and to get the inside word on his secret, we had him drop some of his expert knowledge.
Green Lipstick - Gaeng Kheo Wan Kai
Step 1:
At a low heat in a pot add the oil and curry paste and mix well. Then add the chicken and stir until half cooked
Step 2:
Add the coconut milk along with the fish sauce and sugar. Please mix them well.
Step 3:
Add the water and green beans and bring back to the boil. Pour into a bowl and then garnish with the kaffir lime leaves.
Easy Cafe
The best thing about bubble cup tea is getting the black balls that are inside the tea and shooting them out with a massive plastic straw. Under Melbourne's comic book haven you'll find a techno-colored bubble tea wonderland that Alice herself doesn't even know exists.
The snacks aren't as good as the décor, but still when you have egg dipped in soy sauce you have to think to yourself, "Where the fuck am I?" There's stuff like bubble tea, ice tea, and hot ice blends, don't ask me how that works.
Von Haus
Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how long the Paperback's been there, but it seems like at least 118 years. Anyway, unlike other artists at the time, he actually knew what gum trees looked like.
Atticus Finch
The lovable crew behind the boutique wine store Black Hearts & Sparrows Wine Purveyors on Punt Road, Windsor, have been doing the wine game proud for years, sating the most demanding of palates.
Now, at the vanguard of Lygon Street’s increasingly gentrified lower stretch, they’re not only upgrading a spanking new shop, they’ve also revamped its neighbouring, former goth-rock den into the top notch bar, Atticus Finch.
ThreeThousand Christmas Party
For some, end-of-year Christmas parties begin with complimentary sandwiches and shandies. These parties usually result in a wild game of spin the bottle and the accounts guy atop a trestle table with his pants down. We know this because we've spent the past few weeks underneath a bar where these kind of office parties have exploded.
Little Cupcakes
Great cupcakes in history:
1. Cupcakes eaten by Parisians during bread shortage thanks to intervention of Marie-Antoinette
2. The Great Cupcake by Bhavesh Shah (addressing issues of crime and time travel)
3. ‘Camp Cupcake' (minimum-security women's prison in Alderston, West Virginia, where Martha Stewart served final five months of sentence for federal conviction).
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