WEEKLY DIGEST 129 | 15 DEC 2024
Soup and seafood this week.
The last of the monstrous newsletters 🫡. This week you'll find a couple small tweaks in terms of how some things are arranged in the newsletter. I asked ChatGPT for some help with Markdown code so I could more cleanly structure the newsletter.
This week we have:
Ginza Midai
Sup So Good
Cafe Guilty Pleasure
Monkey & Bird
TheCray
Seafresh Myaree
Pelican Croissanterie
Wang Xiang Noodle
Visit count
Singapore and Japan travel related eats haven't been added in yet (I've started counting!).
As of 13 December 2024:
| Metric | Count | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| First Time Visits | 3 | Ginza Midai The Cray Wang Xiang Noodle Perth |
| Revisits | 5 | Sup So Good Cafe Guilty Pleasure Monkey & Bird Seafresh Myaree Wang Xiang Noodle Perth |
| Total First Time Visits | 83 | 80 (previous) + 3 (new) |
| Total Revisits | 111 | 106 (previous) + 5 (new) |
| Total Visits This Year | 194 | 83 (first time) + 111 (revisits) |
| Ricoh GR IIIx | Sony a7iii with Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 (G1) |
|---|---|
| The Cray | Ginza Midai |
| Wang Xiang Noodle Perth | Monkey & Bird |
| Sup So Good | Seafresh Myaree |
| Cafe Guilty Pleasure | |
| Wang Xiang Noodle Perth |
Shot on Ricoh GR IIIx and Sony a7iii with Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 (G1). Edited on Lightroom Classic.
ICYMI 📱
If you have any new fantastic food finds, we'd love for you to let us know via DM or email. If you have different opinions to us on food, that's fine - let us know too! We love to chat all things food.
Eddy & Paige
The Best Thing We Ate ⭐️
Ginza Midai
📍 Shop 3, Ground Level, 100/104 Murray St, Perth WA 6000
The best thing we ate this week was the snow crab platter deluxe at Ginza Midai. Simple yet delicious - highlighting the best of the produce.
In second place, was their grilled kuroge wagyu. Kuroge wagyu refers to a black-haired breed of wagyu and is the most famous and widely bred of the four native Japanese cattle breeds. Each bite was rich with marbling. Foie gras added an additional layer of richness.
We felt a little apprehensive when ordering this given the price and potential serving size (from what we've seen online). But our serving size was enough to be shared between 2-3 people. Anecdotally, we did hear some friends received a smaller portion compared to ours, so YMMV.
What We Ate 🍴
Sup So Good
📍 3/297 William St, Northbridge WA 6003
Last week I made the mistake of going to not one, but two places in Northbridge without checking that they were open on Wednesday. The first of them was Thanh Dat, for their beef rib pho.
Luckily there's plenty of great Viet food in Perth. Sup So Good came to the rescue (and was only a short walk from Thanh Dat).
Sup so Good's best known for their rockstone wagyu - that is, serving their pho in a hot rockstone bowl that maintains the temperature of the broth. It's essentially like a mini hotpot. Yes, it is a little gimmicky (I just wanna eat, man), but I'm sure some people might find it fun. Pho was fine.
Cafe Guilty Pleasure
📍 1/222 James St, Northbridge WA 6003
How was the dessert? "Not too sweet ✅"
We've been here many dozen times. Full thoughts in our article linked.
Eddy Pekopeko.eats
Monkey & Bird
📍 Shop 3, Ground Level, 100/104 Murray St, Perth WA 6000
After dinner at Ginza Midai, of course we'd wanted a sweet treat. Ginza Nana Alley is still busy, so we ended up waiting nearly an hour to get four seats at Monkey & Bird. Once you're inside you are pretty well insulated from the outside world, so I don't blame people for staying long inside.
We tried their purin (which was unfortunately sold out by the time we headed to Monkey & Bird during Ginza Nana Alley's media night). I'd describe this as soft, creamy and just sweet enough.
Pelican Croissanterie
📍 1/9 Archibald St, Willagee WA 6156
Last week I had my first successful mission to Pelican Croissanterie. It only involved getting there at 8 am (I am a night owl so getting up early is a struggle for me 😆).
The display cabinets were full at 8 am. Everything was delicious and flakey, as expected! The folks behind Pelican Croissanterie previously ran the well regarded Harvest Patisserie in Scarborough. Our favourite was the gratin croissant - which made for the ultimate cheese croissant.
The Cray
📍 Unit 13 Essex St, Fremantle WA 6160
Paige and I both recently celebrated our birthdays and were treated to a lovely lunch by her parents. Apparently The Cray's Executive Platter feeds two people. I call that a lie. It fed four of us - very comfortably! Great spread.
Seafresh Myaree
📍 488 Marmion St, Myaree WA 6154
Last Saturday night involved ordering a bunch of sashimi and oysters from Seafresh Myaree. Quality was fresh as always.
They have recently introduced a $10 sashimi arrangement fee, which is understandable, given the amount of time it does take to artfully arrange a sashimi platter.
It's probably enough of a reason for us to check out Angelo Seafood's sashimi offering again, given the $10 arrangement fee does constitute a substantial percent of the total platter cost.
Wang Xiang Noodle
📍 Unit 1/43 Burrendah Blvd, Willetton WA 6155
Rounding up this newsletter is Wang Xiang Noodle Perth. This restaurant franchise hails from Malaysia, with a handful of outlets in JB and eastern Malaysia.
Their recommended dishes are their chicken rice and pork meat soup. Unfortunately their chicken rice was sold out on the day due to an injury the chef had. It'll definitely be what we try next time we dine in.
The highlight for us was the meat soup which was clean and comforting - the type you can drink all of. Reminiscent of what my parents would make.
Paige ordered the kolok mee and meat soup. The portion size for this ran on the smaller size.
To finish everything off - an iced teh tarik each. These ranked as one of the better teh tariks we've had.
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