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Soon Lee
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Malaysian Chinese Aotearoa (New Zealander), geek, food, wine & microbes interest. Best Auckland Restaurant Venn diagram (Onedrive): https://tinyurl.com/AucklandRestaurant TL50
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Cooked dinner. Egg noodles with soy & sesame sauce, shredded chicken thigh, blanched choysum, spring onion & crispy shallot garnish. Pickled green chilli in soy sauce to accompany. #cookingDiary #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Dinner as described on a round white soup plate
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Lunch at (non-traditional) Indian spot Tonka (20 Duckboard Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000). It's CBD but down a laneway so very little foot traffic. Had a pani puri & thali with lamb. Vietnamese mint in salad was unexpected. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Thali with dal, raita, naan, cos salad, slow roasted lamb shoulder in Kerala nadan curry, paired with lemon tempered rice. Pani puri
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Was a lovely day to go winetasting in the Yarra: Squitchy Lane, Soumah, Yering Station. And lunch at Soumah: arancini & pizza (tomato, artichoke, ham, white anchovies, pine nuts) #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
View of vineyard from Soumah outdoor dining area with yellow roses in left foreground At Soumah: Pizza (tomato, artichoke, ham, white anchovies, pine nuts) The arancini at Soumah
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Lunch was an excellent Croque Madame (Smoked Leg Ham, Gruyère Béchamel, Fried Egg) at Chéri (Coventry St., near South Melbourne Market). #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
The Croque Madame on a round white plate.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) in wetlands of Newells Paddock next to Maribyrnong River. Taking a break at JJ Holland Park amongst eucalyptus trees. #MelbourneScenes #somethingBeautiful
Taking a break at JJ Holland Park amongst eucalyptus trees. Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) in wetlands of Newells Paddock next to Maribyrnong River
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Walked to Footscray for lunch at Bánh Xèo Tay Do Vietnamese Restaurant. Had the bánh khọt (mini cup pancake with prawn in centre) & Bánh bột lọc (tapioca dumpling with dried shrimp & crispy shallot). Worth the trip. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Plate of Bánh bột lọc (tapioca dumpling with dried shrimp & crispy shallot) with bowl of dipping sauce to accompany. Plate of bánh khọt (mini cup pancake with prawn in centre), platter of green leaves and herbs, bowl of dipping sauce to accompany.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Cooked dinner. Rice. Meatballs (chicken mince) with kumara & onion in tomato sauce. Courgette, fried egg, garlic. #cookingDiary #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Bowl of courgette pieces, fried egg with garlic. Bowl of the chicken meatballs with kumara & onion in tomato sauce.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Had lunch with Mum at Mama Huong (Bay st, Port Melbourne). I had the beef pho. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Bowl of beef pho with a pair of wooden chopsticks atop the bowl, plate of beansprouts, sprig of Thai basil, wedge of lemon, pottle of Sriracha chilli & hoisin sauce.
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Dinner at Pacific House (Victoria St, Richmond). Crispy pork,roast duck, claypot tofu, pork & vegetables, steamed Murray cod, water convolvulus with belacan. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Claypot tofu and pork and vegetables. Water convolvulus with belacan. Steamed whole Murray cod with spring onion, ginger, soy sauce.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The roti with egg & onion with lentil & chicken curry sauces, and chicken satay with cucumber, onion, and satay sauce. Roti Bar (Little Collins St) #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
The roti with egg and onion The chicken satay
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Tried the Crackling Pork (A$12) from Luke's Bánh Mì (Little Bourke St) which was delicious but messy to eat. The crackling which was partly pulverized went everywhere. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
The banh mi in a paper bag partly revealed
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Sis made crab & prawn linguine for dinner. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Plate of dinner as described with two grilled prawns on top of the linguine
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Chiyo Mukashi (Koicha-grade ceremonial matcha) latte at MATCHA KŌBŌ. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️

My first time, went with recommended option including having it less sweet than regular. Delicious.
Top down look at matcha latte Plastic cup of iced matcha latte
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Hainanese chicken rice set. Eat Alley, QV Square, Cnr Swanston & Lonsdale St. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Lunch on a wooden tray, a plate of rice, small bowls of chilli sauce &ginger in oil, bowl of soup, platter of poached chicken, cucumber,beansprouts, coriander garnish.
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Nasi lemak with sambal calamari at Mamak Melbourne (366 Lonsdale St) MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Lunch as described on a round white plate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Pokemon GO launched the weekly party challenge (allows 4 people from anywhere to team up) a month ago. But it broke the game for iOS users. They relaunched yesterday but only in New Zealand(?) & we knocked off in 3(?) hours. #pokemon #pokemonGo
Screenshot of completion of party challenge catching 500 pokemon
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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G'day Melbourne, I am in you!
Photo of the 109 tram on Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Salad of leftover roast pork pieces, cucumber, avocado, green beans, kumara, pickled carrot & daikon. The 'dressing' was a thin gravy made from pan juices plus lemon juice, garnish was chopped spring onion. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Dinner as described served on a round white plate Ingredients are thinly sliced leftover roast pork laid on the lid of a casserole dish, a bowl of green beans cut in finger-lengths, a white plate with three cooked red kumara, cucumber slices, pickled carrot & daikon in matchsticks, an avocado, a small dish of chopped spring onion.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Banh mi using tiger bread, leftover roast pork, pickled daikon & carrot, homemade chilli jam, chopped coriander stalk (the leafy parts had gone off), bits of crackling. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Banh mi as described served on a round white plate Ingredients clockwise from top left of a tiger roll, a pot of homemade chilli jam, a round white plate with slices of roast pork, matchsticks of pickled carrot & daikon, chopped coriander stems.
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Stirfry with rice: stirfried the roast pork I had with tofu, green beans, ginger, oyster sauce, spring onion garnish. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Dinner as described served on a round white plate. Ingredients at top of a bowl of tofu cut into strips, at bottom a round plate with thinly sliced ginger, greenbeans, sliced spring onion, bite-size pieces of roast pork.
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Roast pork plus crackling, with boiled kumara, and salad of carrot, cucumber, avocado. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Dinner as described served on a round white plate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Gado gado is a simple but delicious Indonesian salad. The spicy peanut sauce (like a satay sauce) is essential, the vegetables (raw or cooked), with or without hardboiled egg, that can be down to personal preference. #cookingDiary #Vegetarian #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Dinner served on a wooden table. The spicy peanut sauce is in a white bowl to one side. The rest is on a round plate: blanched vegetables are green beans, carrot all cut into sticks, tofu cut into sticks & deepfried, kumara boiled & cut lengthways, raw cucumber cut in sticks, a hardboiled duck egg cut in quarters & placed in the centre of the plate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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While they're still in flower, check out the yellow pōhutukawa in Auckland (motorway end of Sales St, near Victoria Park Market). #SomethingBeautiful #flower #pohutukawa #TamakiMakaurau #Auckland #Aotearoa #NewZealand #kikorangi
The yellow pōhutukawa tree growing between two other trees next to a carpark in Auckland. Closeup of a single yellow pōhutukawa flower. View of top of pōhutukawa tree with clusters of yellow flowers. Several yellow pōhutukawa flowers clustered on a branch.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Sunrise over Auckland. Looking across water to Auckland CBD skyline with sun rising on the horizon on the right, & panning left, silhouetted against the sky are the CBD, Harbour Bridge, & Rangitoto Island. #sunrise #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #somethingBeautiful #HowsTheSerenity
Sunrise over Auckland. Looking across water to Auckland CBD skyline with sun rising on the horizon on the right, & panning left, silhouetted against the sky are the CBD, Harbour Bridge, & Rangitoto Island.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Pōhutukawa flowers (Metrosideros excelsa) by motorway overbridge. There have been a few early-flowering ones but it looks like the season proper is starting to get underway. #pohutukawa #pohutukawageddon #flower #SomethingBeautiful
Vivid red pōhutukawa flowers flowers against clear blue sky. A cluster of three vivid red pohutukawa flowers in the midground.
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM