Good morning all!!
You are about to witness the experience that Roy Choi has made his mark in Australia through cooking at CODA! hehe..and of course this post is a Roy Choi exception which contains mostly savouries! I had to share the experience!! It was Brilliant!!
KOGI is a food business running from 5 food trucks and 3 venues throughout LA serving Korean Mexican flavours.The Kogi team Roy, Natasha, Caroline and Alice were here for Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. It was a privilege to work beside Roy (or better known as Papi Chulo) during his events at CODA and the Langham where his masterclasses were held.
The flavours I tell you are 'flavour on steroids' as Adam D'Sylva puts it. It is so tasty, tangy, sweet, hot, sour... fireworks in your mouth type food. I'm in love. I made sure in a week, I got as much of my KOGI fix as possible... or else I'd have to buy a ticket to go to LA to experience again (which isn't a bad thing of course)!
On Wednesday I assisted in the kitchen for the Gourmet Traveller Roy Choi Dinner. Before the night began, we had a briefing and taste of Roy's Menu. Yummy.
Hot Boxing It eaten by the handful, lotus, taro root and potato chips are sprinkled w kaffir dried shrimp salt
Tacos, Beachside Ahi poke chillis w red tofu in butter lettuce and sesame leaves, salsa verde and home fried shallots join the party
Parking Lot Prawns Grilled w avocado smash and grapefruit pico de gallo, fried garlic shavings and some salsa roja to get down with
Notorious: Juicy our love letter to cochinita pibil, a slab of fatty, spicy pork takes a low dip in some salted baby shrimp vinaigrette and chive kimchi
2Pac Chops a little sun soaked California love rubbed into our kalbi-marinated lamb chops w pickled Asian pear gremolata and salsa verde
OG status straight up, bone-in, aged and chilli-salted prime rib - roasted, grilled and served w lemongrass creme fraiche and rice
Gracias Sujunggwa cold, summertime persimmon, cinnamon ginger tea w lychee sorbet, pine nuts, berries and torn mint to cap off a warm and rainy day in Melbourne.
Thank you for salivating over the food I got to enjoy last week. You better wipe the drool off now hahaha.
I'll post more pictures up later behind the scenes in the kitchen and when I dine the next night in the dining room. Only at CODA.
Ciao ciao Xx
2 comments:
that looks awesome!! hope you stole some recipes from Roy!! lolz
hahahahha...I don't need to steal them...Roy shared them with us hahahahaha
Post a Comment