WEEKLY DIGEST 134 | 31 JAN 2025
6149 eats (again).
I once again find myself at 11:45 pm on Thursday night smashing out this newsletter. This edition might be a little shorter as I wanna head to bed soon 🙈.
Nothing's really concrete in terms of this weekend's eats, except for a sashimi party on Friday night. Let's see what we end up eating in next week's newsletter 😋.
Hansik
Monsterella
Ageto Ramen
Sarah's Home Kitchen
Emperor's Kitchen
| Ricoh GR IIIx | Sony a7iii with Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 (G1) |
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| Emperor’s Kitchen |
Visit count
As of 31 January 2025
| Metric | Count | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| First Time Visits | 0 | None |
| Revisits | 5 |
Hansik Monsterella Ageto Ramen Sarah’s Home Kitchen Emperor’s Kitchen |
| Total First Time Visits | 1 | 1 (previous) |
| Total Revisits | 14 | 9 (previous) + 5 |
| Total Visits This Year | 15 | 1 (first time) + 14 (revisits) |
ICYMI 📱
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Eddy & Paige
The Best Thing We Ate ⭐️
Hansik
📍 4/7 Woodpecker Ave, Willetton WA 6155
The best meal we had last week was at Hansik. We were a little apprehensive to return as we had an average experience during our last visit two years ago. During that last visit they had a very watered down menu - not really inspiring us to make return visit. This is despite being big fans of Hansik (so much so we wrote an article many moons ago Hansik (Willetton)).
They've since undergone new management since November so we decided to go check it out again.
Dishes were all good! Hansik previously served our favourite kimchi fried rice in Perth. The current iteration is ok - far better than Bob Jo's but it doesn't top their old one.
Having said that, we'll probably give the kimchi fried rice here another try, without the cheese as we found that masked a lot of the flavour.
Chicken was up to standard. My only nitpick - I think it needed a little more sauce, or a quick toss in the sauce to completely cover the chicken. I found many of my bites to lack sauce.
The last of our usual order - kimchi jeon. Up to spec!
What We Ate 🍴
Monsterella
📍 46 Grantham St, Wembley WA 6014
Last Friday night involved grabbing Monsterella takeaway and catching Sing Sing, at Somerville Auditorium as part of Lotterywest Films. It did also rain, which was not fun 🫠.
Our fave pizza of the two was the foro. Can't go wrong with the mushrooms, truffle oil and cheese combo.
Monsterella used to be our fave for pizza a couple years back, but for the past 3 years or so, we've given that title to Rossonero Pizzeria (Maylands). Pizzas here run around 25% cheaper and we prefer the flavour combos a bit more. Having said that - Monsterella still serves up excellent pizzas in Perth.
Not pictured - their hand cut truffled pappardelle carbonara. A must order here (still as good as we remember).
Ageto Ramen
📍Shop 6/46-48 Catalano Cct, Canning Vale WA 6155
We ended up at Canning Vale Food Court after rocking up to Suzie's Makan Place only to find them closed as they're on holiday 🥲. It's alright, we've already scheduled in a visit to Suzie's once they're back 😆.
This marks our 3rd or 4th time trying the ramen at Ageto Ramen. It's headed by some ex-Hakata Gensuke chefs, so tonkotsu broth ramen is their specialty.
Paige and I agreed that best bowl of the day, was my kuro ramen. Their "normal" level of black garlic was a goldilocks, just right, amount of garlic.
Their ichi ramen is their original tonkotsu broth. Pricing for ramen here is very, very reasonable. Ramen here definitely saves us the visit out to Vic Park to Hakata Gensuke.
What we do think Hakata Gensuke do better, are gyoza. Ageto Ramen's gyoza filling has higher moisture content, whereas Hakata Gensuke's runs drier - our preference when gyoza are pan fried.
Sarah's Home Kitchen
📍46-48 Catalano Cct, Canning Vale WA 6155
Kimchi kimbap $12.5
A bowl of ramen each and 2.5 ish gyoza to share, wasn't enough. So we had some Korean sushi (just being cheeky here 🙈). Kimbap here is well priced!
Emperor's Kitchen
📍55 Farrington Rd, Leeming WA 6149
Wrapping up this week we have dim sum. I wasn't sure whether to go to Emperor's Kitchen or the newly rebranded Dim Sum Palace (formerly Golden BBQ), as both are rated similarly. My friend decided on Emperor's Kitchen in the end.
It was a good choice. Rocking up at 1 pm ish, we were met with a small line - definitely a good problem to have. It was full house, but we managed to get a table quickly.
I only grabbed snaps of the rather cute turtle shaped pineapple bun and shumai. Dim sum was good. Their chilli oil also had nice punch to it 🥊.
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