Lucille Wong

  • Vive la Valparaíso

    Vive la Valparaíso

    Melbourne has the best coffee in the world and I’ve found proof in the seaport city of Valparaíso, some 120 km (90-minute bus ride) from the Chilean capital of Santiago. In Valpo’s main square is the “Melbourne Café”, a café which markets itself as “making coffee, just like in Melbourne”. The menu features the flat…

  • Peruvian Comforts

    Peruvian Comforts

    If Korean food is having a moment in Melbourne, then Peruvian food is having a thousand moments all over the world. In 2011, culinary royalty Ferran Adrià endorsed Peruvian cuisine, pronouncing it the key to the future of gastronomy. In 2013, chef Alain Ducasse nominated Peru as a leading player in the global culinary scene.…

  • Summer means tennis

    Summer means tennis

    The Australian Open is one of my favourite times of the year. Held in my hometown of Melbourne every January, the tennis means summer days and long, lazy nights. I first went to the tennis with my girlfriends at the ripe old age of 16. It was school holidays. Back then, a Ground Pass of…

  • Abbotsford Convent: a microcosm of Adam Bandt’s Melbourne

    If you haven’t heard, the Greens’ candidate Adam Bandt has recently won a second term in his electorate of Melbourne. He did so by beating the two major parties who ganged up on him by passing preferences to each other. Adam beat them both, proving that the Greens’ spirit of social inclusion and sustainable living…

  • Best and worst yum cha in Melbourne (as well as one pick in Sydney)

    I was born in Hong Kong and I moved to Melbourne when I was eight years old. I don’t speak much Cantonese but I’m fluent in yum cha. When it comes to choosing a yum cha restaurant, this is what I look for: Dumplings must be pushed around in a trolley, table service is not…